Tong vs Pong - What's the difference?
tong | pong |
An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
* 1998 , Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz (editors), Sanctity of time and space in tradition and modernity , page 232:
(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 a noun tong
is tone, shade.As a proper noun pong is
(video games) an early video game from atari, resembling ping-pong, in which two players control paddles and attempt to intercept a ball.tong
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tange'', from a Germanic root. Cognate to Old Norse ''t?ng'' (modern Icelandic .Noun
(en noun)- these attributes are concrete expressions of God's care and providence and therefore not man-made. This explains the quite bizarre presence of a ‘pair’ of tongs' in some lists: in order to make a '''tong''' one needs a '''tong''', and how could the first '''tong''' be made without a ' tong ?
See also
* tongsEtymology 2
From (etyl), .See also
* triad * yakuza ----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?’
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- 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!’
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- 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.
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- “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.