English Dictionary

pong

/pɒŋ/

verb

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To stink, to smell bad. / (slang, theater, derogatory) To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.

I love playing ping pong with my friends.

意味（1）

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To stink, to smell bad.

On she walked at a crawling pace, ponging of sweat, drops of mucus and blood falling between her feet.

意味（2）

(slang, theater, derogatory) To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.

意味（3）

(slang, theater, intransitive) To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.

[…] and the “good old crusted” actor, forgetting the lines of the author, used without compunction to cover his discomfiture by inventing a text of his own–an achievement known as ponging.