Meanings
plural popty pings
- UKhumorousA microwave oven.
2014, F. John Hurr, Light of the Damned First, could it be warmed up in a popty ping — a microwave oven — or consumed straight from the container?
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In Wales it is known as popty-ping! / In our house it is chicken ding! / Whatever you want to call it now / It's a very clever thing somehow
2014, Pete Barry, You're Having a Larf!quoted in 2020, Simon Walters, The Borisaurus: The Dictionary of Boris Johnson 'Pop it in the popty-ping.' Interview with Welsh journalist Guto Hari, 10 December 2019. Describing his Brexit deal as a meal ready to go in the microwave.
Most of us don't want to bung a microwave meal into the popty ping (only for it to come out hot enough to burn your mouth off).
2023, Matt Pritchard, Dirty Vegan Fast and Easy
Origin
From Welsh popty (“oven”) and English ping (“high-pitched sound”).
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