Pong vs Jong - What's the difference?
pong | jong |
(networking) A packet that is replying to a ping, and thereby indicating the presence of a host.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A stench, a bad smell.
* 1992 , , Volume 1, 2011, Read How You Want,
* 1998 , Catherine Fox, Heaven?s Scent'', '' ,
* 2000 , Susan Sallis, 2011,
* 2009 , Martin Fine, The Devil?s Fragrance ,
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To stink, to smell bad.
* 1997 , , David M. E. Roskies (translator and editor), Stop Thief!'', ''Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories ,
* 2009 , Susan Brocker, Saving Sam , HarperCollins, New Zealand,
* 2010 , Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest ,
* 2011 , , We?ll Sing at Dawn , 2012, eBook, Headline Publishing,
A Tibetan building which makes up a prefecture; typically a monastery or fortress.
*1933 , (Robert Byron), First Russia, Then Tibet , Tauris Parke 2011, p. 211:
*:When they had gone I went for a solitary ride, rounding the Jong and striking out into the country through a subsidiary village.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 451:
*:However, the Tibetans refused to negotiate – except on the British side of the frontier – and withdrew into their fortress, or jong .
*2011 , Peter Harrison, Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas , Osprey 2011, p. 14:
*:The origin of the Tibetan dzong is not known although there is evidence of Chinese and Mongol influences in the style of their military architecture.
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As a proper noun pong
is (video games) an early video game from atari, resembling ping-pong, in which two players control paddles and attempt to intercept a ball.As a noun jong is
boy, lad.pong
English
Etymology 1
From ping, via the pairing of .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 109,
- She sniffed, squiffing up her nose. ‘What a pong ! Do they all smell like this?’
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- 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.
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- ‘I see what you mean about the pong . I couldn?t smell it on myself but I can smell it on you!’
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- If you want to empty a crowded room strong body pong will usually do the trick.
Verb
(en verb)page 97,
- On she walked at a crawling pace, ponging of sweat, drops of mucus and blood falling between her feet.
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- The place ponged , like the smell of stale cat pee.
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- “That toothless bloke ponged . Couldn?t you smell him? He smelled like a bloody pub floor at closing time.”
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- 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.