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Pondy vs Pongy - What's the difference?

pondy | pongy |

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

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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= citation
  • , 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= citation
  • , 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.
  • pongy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (UK, Australia, NZ, informal) Having a bad smell.
  • * 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.
  • * 2005 , James Duncan, Sweets That Eat Children! , page 2,
  • Moments later, a small, sobbing figure would emerge—dirty as a rat and smelling pongier than the rottenest egg.
  • * 2010 , Lonely Planet staff, The Europe Book: A Journey Through Every Country on the Continent , 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.