"pongy" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈpɒŋi/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɔŋi/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-pongy.ogg Forms: pongier [comparative], pongiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɒŋi Etymology: From pong + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|pong|y}} pong + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} pongy (comparative pongier, superlative pongiest)
  1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Having a bad smell. Tags: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, informal Categories (topical): Smell Derived forms: pongily, ponginess

Inflected forms

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        },
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          "ref": "2005, James Duncan, Sweets That Eat Children!, page 2:",
          "text": "Moments later, a small, sobbing figure would emerge—dirty as a rat and smelling pongier than the rottenest egg.",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Lonely Planet staff, The Europe Book: A Journey Through Every Country on the Continent, page 57:",
          "text": "In France, Époisses is known as the pongiest of its 500-odd cheeses; in the UK 19 humans and an electronic nose voted Vieux-Boulogne the world's smelliest cheese.",
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    },
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        },
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