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Pongy vs Pogy - What's the difference?

pongy | pogy |

As an adjective pongy

is having a bad smell.

As a noun pogy is

menhaden fish.

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.

    pogy

    English

    Noun

    (pogies)
  • menhaden (fish)
  • Usage notes

    * Pogy'' is often confused with ''porgy , and therefore incorrectly applied to various fishes. (Webster 1913)