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# pong

«pong» in Mova's school dictionary: **a strong, unpleasant smell** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pong — UK, Australia, NZ, informal; Pong — a game); verb (pong, pongs, ponged, ponging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Australia, informal) A pong is a strong, unpleasant smell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pong/#m1)

2) (UK, informal) To pong is to smell bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pong/#m2)

3) Pong is one of the first video games, a simple tennis-like game from the early days of computers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pong/#m3)

4) «Ping-pong» is table tennis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pong/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday British and Australian talk, «What a pong!» or «Your trainers pong!» is a jokey way to say something stinks; adjective «pongy». In history-of-computers lessons, Pong was an early arcade game with two paddles and a ball. In PE, ping-pong is another name for table tennis.

### examples

- What a pong! Who left the bin open? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pong/#x1)
- Your football socks pong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pong/#x2)
- The fish market had a terrible pong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pong/#x3)
- The cheese ponged out the whole fridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pong/#x4)
- Pong was one of the first video games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pong/#x5)
- We played ping-pong at the youth club. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pong/#x6)
- The changing room is a bit pongy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pong/#x7)

### note

Informal, not rude, mostly UK, Australia and NZ; Americans say «stink». Regular verb: ponged. Adjective: pongy.

### In the corpora

- [Fresh sweat hardly smells; it is the tiny bacteria that eat it that make the pong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/356-nails-sweat-and-smells-smelly-feet-armpits-and-bad-breath/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pong» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pong/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.