English Dictionary

pong

IPA（発音記号）

/pɒŋ/

動詞

オーストラリア英語 ニュージーランド英語 イギリス英語 俗語 軽蔑的 自動詞

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To stink, to smell bad. / (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.

日本語の意味

臭う、悪臭を放つ / （俗語で、特に演劇などにおいて）台詞を、不自然またはあざとい方法で発して、過剰な注目を集めるようにすること

After weeks in the heat, the gym socks began to pong, and nobody wanted to handle them.

何週間も暑い中に置いておいたせいで、ジムの靴下が臭くなり、誰も触りたがらなかった。

意味（1）

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To stink, to smell bad.

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

意味（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.

意味（3）

(slang, theater, intransitive) To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.

[…] 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.

pongs （ present singular third-person ）

ponging （ participle present ）

ponged （ participle past ）

ponged （ past ）