Pondy vs Pongy - What's the difference?
pondy | pongy |
Resembling a pond; pondlike
*{{quote-book, year=1851, author=Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, title=Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Our tea was made of a brown pondy liquid, which looked like water in a tanner's vat. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1911, author=Dallas Lore Sharp, title=Roof and Meadow, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And faint across the creek, the road, and the fields lay the pondy smell of spatter-docks. }}
* 2011 , (Gnomeo and Juliet)
*:Juliet, is there something wrong with the pond?
*:No, it's fine, I mean, it's just as pondy as ever.
(UK, Australia, NZ, informal) Having a bad smell.
* 2001 , Ken Campbell, Home'', in John O?Connor, ''Scripts and Sketches , Heinemann Educational, UK,
* 2005 , James Duncan, Sweets That Eat Children! ,
* 2010 , Lonely Planet staff, The Europe Book: A Journey Through Every Country on the Continent ,
As adjectives the difference between pondy and pongy
is that pondy is resembling a pond; pondlike while pongy is (uk|australia|nz|informal) having a bad smell.pondy
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(er)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.
page 2,
- Moments later, a small, sobbing figure would emerge—dirty as a rat and smelling pongier than the rottenest egg.
page 57,
- 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.