Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

popty ping

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pop-ty ping
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A microwave oven.

British usage; Humorous

Example Sentences

"2014, F. John Hurr, Light of the Damned First, could it be warmed up in a popty ping — a microwave oven — or consumed straight from the container?"
"In Wales it is known as popty-ping! / In our house it is chicken ding! / Whatever you want to call it now / It's a very clever thing somehow"
"quoted in 2020, Simon Walters, The Borisaurus: The Dictionary of Boris Johnson 'Pop it in the popty-ping.' Interview with Welsh journalist Guto Hari, 10 December 2019. Describing his Brexit deal as a meal ready to go in the microwave."
"Most of us don't want to bung a microwave meal into the popty ping (only for it to come out hot enough to burn your mouth off)."

Etymology

From Welsh popty (“oven”) and English ping (“high-pitched sound”).

Usage

British usage
Humorous

Inflected Forms

popty pings (plural)

Questions

What does popty ping mean?: A microwave oven.
Where does popty ping come from?: From Welsh popty (“oven”) and English ping (“high-pitched sound”).

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