pongy

comparative pongier · superlative pongiest

1. AustraliaNew ZealandUKinformalHaving a bad smell.

   Moments later, a small, sobbing figure would emerge—dirty as a rat and smelling pongier than the rottenest egg.

   2005, James Duncan, Sweets That Eat Children!, page 2

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   2001, Ken Campbell, Home, in John O′Connor, Scripts and Sketches, Heinemann Educational, UK, page 79, Look, they′ve even put a pair of old pongy socks exactly like mine in the corner by the door, exactly like I bunged them last Sunday. Mind you, they are a bit pongier than I remembered. But mind you, they would get pongier over the week.

   In France, Époisses is known as the pongiest of its 500-odd cheeses; in the UK 19 humans and an electronic nose voted Vieux-Boulogne the world's smelliest cheese.

   2010, Lonely Planet staff, The Europe Book: A Journey Through Every Country on the Continent, page 57