pondy

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UK/pɒndi/US/pɑndi/

adjective

Resembling a pond; pondlike

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Meanings

pondy1

adjectivepondy (comparative more pondy, superlative most pondy)

comparative more pondy · superlative most pondy

  1. Resembling a pond; pondlike

    Our tea was made of a brown pondy liquid, which looked like water in a tanner's vat.

    1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
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    And faint across the creek, the road, and the fields lay the pondy smell of spatter-docks.

    1911, Dallas Lore Sharp, Roof and Meadow

    Juliet, is there something wrong with the pond? No, it's fine, I mean, it's just as pondy as ever.

    2011, Gnomeo and Juliet

Pondy2

proper noun
  1. Nickname for Puducherry: the capital city of the union territory of Puducherry, India.

Origin

Pondy · proper noun

Abbreviation of Pondicherry, former name of Puducherry.

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APA

pondy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pondy

MLA

“pondy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pondy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pondy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pondy.

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