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Spongier vs Pongier - What's the difference?

spongier | pongier |

As adjectives the difference between spongier and pongier

is that spongier is (spongy) while pongier is (pongy).

spongier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (spongy)

    • Anagrams

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    spongy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * spongey

    Adjective

    (er)
  • having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous
    • spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones
  • Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
  • * Shakespeare
    • spongy April

    Derived terms

    * spongy lead * spongy platinum

    pongier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (pongy)

    • 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.