Meanings
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- Internetnonstandardparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of ping
Consider me pung!
2012 May 4, Meg Worley, “Ping: Meg Worley”, in ba.food (Usenet)4 more examples
After reconnecting the host computer back to the modem, before recycling, I "pung" and got "Destination host unreachable." After recycling, ##.##.40.1 "pung" okay. […] > I'm sorry, but I can't quite follow what you're doing. Between > the obfuscated IP's and the strange terms like "host's modem" > and "pung", I guess I'm easily distracted. […] as for "pung", I was just trying to be funny ("pung" = "pinged" P=).
2009 September 17, Kaimbridge, “Belkin F5D7234-4 Router Sporadically Connected?”, in alt.internet.wireless (Usenet)Like in to ring? So ping would be ping pang pung? We tried to ping him. We pang him. He has been pung. Hmmm. Like the sound of that.
[2009 December 28, Nico Coesel, “Info on heritage Nallatech board?”, in comp.arch.fpga (Usenet)And while you're being pinged (while you're being pung?), may I ask if you listened to this recent Science in Action on the World Service: […]
2016 June 5, Peter Percival, “Ping Kendal[l] Down”, in uk.religion.christian (Usenet)The day I found this, I wrote a 10000 character message, accidentally DDoS'ed myself, and disguised an @everyone in the message, "haha get pung".
2021 March 16, Feed Supplier, “[Web Feed] Major Discord Security Issue”, in alt.privacy (Usenet)
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Synonyms & antonyms
nounA set of three identical tiles.
nounA call for forming such a set using a discarded tile.
Origin
pung · noun
Shortened form of tom-pung, from the same Algonquian etymon as toboggan.
Full word history & related roots →pung · noun
- Cantonese碰
- Englishpung
Borrowed from Cantonese 碰 (pung³).
More words from Cantonese
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 刻子, 碰
- 刻子 (haak¹ zi²)mahjong: a set of three identical tiles
- 碰 (pung³)mahjong: a call for a set of three identical tiles
Chinese Mandarin 刻子, 碰
- 刻子 (kèzǐ)mahjong: a set of three identical tiles
- 碰 (pèng)mahjong: a call for a set of three identical tiles
Japanese 刻子, ポン
- 刻子 (kōtsu)mahjong: a set of three identical tiles
- ポン (pon)mahjong: a call for a set of three identical tiles
- 碰 (pon)mahjong: a call for a set of three identical tiles
Korean 커쯔, 펑
- 커쯔 (keojjeu)mahjong: a set of three identical tiles
- 펑 (peong)mahjong: a call for a set of three identical tiles
Polish pung, pung
- pungmahjong: a set of three identical tiles
- pungmahjong: a call for a set of three identical tiles
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with pung
Cite this entry
pung. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pung
“pung.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pung. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pung,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pung.
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