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