pong

Meaning

Noun

A stench, a bad smell.

Verb

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) To stink, to smell bad.
2. (derogatory, slang) To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.
3. (intransitive, slang) To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.

Synonyms

stink

reek

niff

stench

fetor

rankness

smell

👃

smelliness

be rank

give off a bad odor

falstench

foulness

hum

mell

odor

Translations

puzzo

👃

peste

puzzare

👃

stank

stinken

Mief

puanteur

fétidité

pong

fetore

lezzo

cattivo odore

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɒŋ/

Etymology

Probably from Romani pan (“to stink”).