Meaning of pongy | Babel Free

Definitions

Having a bad smell.

Australia, New-Zealand, UK, informal

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level