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English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Probably from Romani pan (“to stink”).

Noun

pong (plural pongs)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A stench, a bad smell.
   • 1992, Bryce Courtenay, Tandia, Volume 1, 2011, Read How You Want, page 109,

     She sniffed, squiffing up her nose. ‘What a pong! Do they all smell like this?’

   • 1998, Catherine Fox, Heaven?s Scent, Third Way, 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.

   • 2000, Susan Sallis, 2011, unnumbered page,

     ‘I see what you mean about the pong. I couldn?t smell it on myself but I can smell it on you!’

   • 2009, Martin Fine, The Devil?s Fragrance, page 109,

     If you want to empty a crowded room strong body pong will usually do the trick.

Related terms

• pongy

Translations

Verb

pong (third-person singular simple present pongs, present participle ponging, simple past and past participle ponged)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To stink, to smell bad.
   • 1997, Taufiq Ismail, David M. E. Roskies (translator and editor), Stop Thief!, Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories, page 97,

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

   • 2009, Susan Brocker, Saving Sam, HarperCollins, New Zealand, unnumbered page,

     The place ponged, like the smell of stale cat pee.

   • 2010, Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest, page 63,

     “ […] That toothless bloke ponged. Couldn?t you smell him? He smelled like a bloody pub floor at closing time.”

   • 2011, Victor Pemberton, We?ll Sing at Dawn, 2012, eBook, Headline Publishing, unnumbered page,

     […] 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.

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.
3. (slang, theater, intransitive) To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.
   • 2016, Jim Davis, European Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900

     […] 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."

Synonyms

• (stink): reek, smell, stink

Translations

Etymology 2

From ping, via the pairing of ping-pong.

Noun

pong (plural pongs)

1. (networking) A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.

Etymology 3

Noun

pong (plural pongs)

1. (mahjong) Alternative form of pung

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pong

1. ladle made from a gourd (used especially for rice beer)

Tagalog

Etymology

From Hokkien ?.

Noun

pong

1. (mahjong) A pung; a set of three identical tiles.
2. (playground games) the word that the tagged it says when catching a playmate, as in the game of hide and seek.

English

Alternative forms

• dzong

Etymology

From Tibetan ???? (rdzong, “fortress, castle; province, district”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???/

Noun

jong (plural jongs)

1. A Tibetan building which makes up a prefecture; typically a monastery or fortress.
   • 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Tauris Parke 2011, p. 211:

     When they had gone I went for a solitary ride, rounding the Jong and striking out into the country through a subsidiary village.

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 451:

     However, the Tibetans refused to negotiate – except on the British side of the frontier – and withdrew into their fortress, or jong.

   • 2011, Peter Harrison, Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas, Osprey 2011, p. 14:

     The origin of the Tibetan dzong is not known although there is evidence of Chinese and Mongol influences in the style of their military architecture.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch jongen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??/

Noun

jong (plural jongens)

1. A male servant.
2. (rare) A boy.

   Synonym: seun

Related terms

• jonk

Adjective

jong

1. attributive form of jonk

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch jonc, from Old Dutch jung, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?yuh?n??ós. Compare German jung, English young, Danish ung, Icelandic ungur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??/
• Rhymes: -??

Adjective

jong (comparative jonger, superlative jongst)

1. young
2. new

Inflection

Antonyms

• oud

Noun

jong n (plural jongen, diminutive jonkie n or jongske n)

1. A young: a young being, especially an animal.

Verb

jong

1. first-person singular present indicative of jongen
2. imperative of jongen

See also

• jongen

Garo

Noun

jong

1. younger brother

Synonyms

• jonggipa (formal)
• jojong
• angjong

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch jonc, from Old Dutch jung, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?yuh?n??ós.

Adjective

jong

1. young

Antonyms

• aajd

Noun

jong m (plural jonges)

1. boy, young guy
2. (colloquial, Maastrichtian) a colloquial term of address for a man, along the lines of e.g. mate

3. A young: a young being, especially an animal.

Related terms

• jungske (diminutive)

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jo?/
• Rhymes: -o?

Adjective

jong (masculine jongen, neuter jongt, comparative méi jong, superlative am jéngsten)

1. (regional, dated) Alternative form of jonk

Declension

Related terms

• Jong
• Jongfra

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Min Nan ? (tsûng), from Proto-Min *-džion? (“ship, boat”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-law? (“boat”). Compare Old Chinese ? (OC *?ljon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d????/
• Rhymes: -d????, -??
• Hyphenation: jong

Noun

jong (Jawi spelling ????, plural jong-jong, informal 1st possessive jongku, impolite 2nd possessive jongmu, 3rd possessive jongnya)

1. Jong (a Javanese-Malay cargo and passenger ship)

Further reading

• “jong” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o??/

Noun

jong

1. monkey

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 40