Sponged vs Ponged - What's the difference?
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(sponge)
(countable) Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera , that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
(countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=5 (uncountable) A porous material such as sponges consist of.
(informal) A heavy drinker.
(countable, uncountable) A type of light cake; sponge cake.
(countable, uncountable, British) A type of steamed pudding.
(slang) A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge).
(countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a .
Any spongelike substance.
# Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
# Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
# Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel.
(slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.
* L'Estrange
To get by imposition; to scrounge.
* , chapter=13
, title= To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
* South
To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
(pong)
(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,
As verbs the difference between sponged and ponged
is that sponged is (sponge) while ponged is (pong).sponged
English
Verb
(head)sponge
English
("sponge" on Wikipedia)Noun
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Synonyms
* (marine invertebrate) sea sponge, bath sponge, poriferan, porifer * (piece of porous material used for washing) bath sponge * (light cake) sponge cake * (type of steamed pudding) sponge pudding * (person) freeloader, spongerDerived terms
* breadcrumb sponge * demosponge * sea sponge * spongey * sponge bath * sponge cakeSee also
* foamVerb
(spong)- The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that sponges upon other people's trenchers.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- (Jonathan Swift)
- How came such multitudes of our nation to be sponged of their plate and their money?
- (Hooker)
Synonyms
* blagponged
English
Verb
(head)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?’
page 13,
- 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!’
page 109,
- 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.
page 63,
- “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.
