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Pony vs Pongy - What's the difference?

pony | pongy |

As adjectives the difference between pony and pongy

is that pony is of little worth while pongy is having a bad smell.

As a noun pony

is any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands.

As a verb pony

is to lead (a horse) from another horse.

pony

English

(wikipedia pony)

Etymology 1

1659 from (etyl) (cognate to English foal).

Noun

(ponies)
  • Any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands.
  • (regional) A small serving of an alcoholic beverage.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 193:
    • Demon popped into his mouth a last morsel of black bread with elastic samlet, gulped down a last pony of vodka and took his place at the table with Marina facing him across its oblong length.
  • * 2010 , Dick Lynas, Pies Were for Thursdays: Tales from an Ordinary Glasgow East End Childhood , page 283,
    • I did not even know what a ‘pony'’, a small chaser of beer, was. But of course I could not admit that. So putting on an air of nonchalance, and a deep voice, I strolled into a pub with one of the other equally naive guys and we ordered two ' ponies of beer.
    ‘McEwans?’ asked the barman.
    ‘Naw - ponies ’ said I.
  • (Australia, New South Wales, Victoria) A serving of 140 millilitres of beer.
  • (UK, slang) Twenty-five pounds sterling.
  • (US, slang) A translation used as a study aid; loosely, a crib, a cheat-sheet.
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "pony and trap" ) Crap; rubbish, nonsense.
    • Synonyms
    * (l)
    Derived terms
    * dog and pony show * play the ponies * polo pony * pony and trap * pony chaise * pony engine * pony express * pony glass * pony keg * pony truck * pony truss * pony up * Shetland pony

    Verb

  • To lead (a horse) from another horse.

    • Etymology 2

    Shortened from (pony and trap), rhyming with (crap)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) Of little worth.
    • ----

    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.