Pongy vs Podgy - What's the difference?
pongy | podgy |
(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 pongy and podgy
is that pongy is having a bad smell while podgy is slightly fat.pongy
English
Adjective
(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.