# pong
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /pɒŋ/
* (General American) IPA: /pɔŋ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒŋ

### Etymology 1

Probably from Romani pan (“to stink”).

#### Noun

pong (plural pongs)
* (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A stench, a bad smell.
** 1992, Bryce Courtenay, Tandia, Volume 1, 2011, Read How You Want, page 109,
    She sniffed, squiffing up her nose. ‘What a pong! Do they all smell like this?’
** 1998, Catherine Fox, Heaven′s Scent: Third Way, page 13:I can remember calling round once and when she answered the door I was greeted by an unmistakable, noxious pong. “I can smell gas!” I said. “Oh, have I left the ring on?” she asked vaguely.
** 2000, Susan Sallis, 2011, unnumbered page,
    ‘I see what you mean about the pong. I couldn′t smell it on myself but I can smell it on you!’
** 2009, Martin Fine, The Devil′s Fragrance, page 109:If you want to empty a crowded room strong body pong will usually do the trick.

##### Related terms

* pongy

##### Translations
#### Verb

pong (third-person singular simple present pongs, present participle ponging, simple past and past participle ponged)
* (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) To stink, to smell bad.
** 1997, Taufiq Ismail, David M. E. Roskies (translator and editor), Stop Thief!, Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories, page 97,
    On she walked at a crawling pace, ponging of sweat, drops of mucus and blood falling between her feet.
** 2009, Susan Brocker, Saving Sam, HarperCollins, New Zealand, unnumbered page,
    The place ponged, like the smell of stale cat pee.
** 2010, Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest, page 63:“ […] That toothless bloke ponged. Couldn′t you smell him? He smelled like a bloody pub floor at closing time.”
** 2011, Victor Pemberton, We′ll Sing at Dawn, 2012, eBook, Headline Publishing, unnumbered page,
    […] and this evening, Eileen Perkins′s daughter Rita ponged with the smell of cheap carbolic soap, after a late-afternoon visit to the public baths down Hornsey Road.
* (slang, theater, derogatory) To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.
* (slang, theater, intransitive) To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.
** 2016, Jim Davis, European Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900:[…] and the “good old crusted” actor, forgetting the lines of the author, used without compunction to cover his discomfiture by inventing a text of his own–an achievement known as "ponging."

##### Synonyms

* (stink): reek, smell, stink

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From ping, via the pairing of ping-pong.

#### Noun

pong (plural pongs)
* (networking) A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

pong (plural pongs)
* (mahjong) Alternative form of pung

### See also

* beer pong
* ping pong

## Garo
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

pong
* ladle made from a gourd (used especially for rice beer)

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 碰 (phòng). Compare English pung, Japanese 碰(ポン) (pon), Mandarin 碰 (pèng), Cantonese 碰 (pung$^3$).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈpoŋ/ [ˈpoŋ]
* Rhymes: -oŋ
* Syllabification: pong

### Noun

pong (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜅ᜔)
* (mahjong) pung (a set of three identical tiles)
* (playground games) the word that the tagged it says when catching a playmate, as in the game of hide and seek

### Further reading

* “pong” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
* “pong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 146
* Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 45