pongy
/ˈpɔŋi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "2001, Ken Campbell, Home, in John O′Connor, Scripts and Sketches, Heinemann Educational, UK, page 79, Look, they′ve even put a pair of old pongy socks exactly like mine in the corner by the door, exactly like I bunged them last Sunday. Mind you, they are a bit pongier than I remembered. But mind you, they would get pongier over the week."
- "Moments later, a small, sobbing figure would emerge—dirty as a rat and smelling pongier than the rottenest egg."
- "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."
Etymology
From pong + -y.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɔŋi/
- British English: /ˈpɒŋi/
Usage
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- British usage
- Informal
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
pongily
ponginess