different between hong vs pong

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

hong

1. (obsolete) past tense of hang

Etymology 2

From Cantonese ? (hong4, “trade, business”).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Could someone with knowledge of Cantonese verify this etymology? Is it a shortening of ??”)

Noun

hong (plural hongs)

1. a foreign trading company in China

Anagrams

• Gohn

Irish

Noun

hong m

1. h-prothesized form of ong

Verb

hong

1. h-prothesized form of ong

Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish honka.

Noun

hong

1. forest pine

Mandarin

Romanization

hong

1. Nonstandard spelling of h?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of hóng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of h?ng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of hòng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Palauan

Etymology

From Japanese ? (hon).

Noun

hong

1. book

Veps

Noun

hong

1. forest pine

Vietnamese

Etymology

Compare Chinese ?, Thai ???? (h???ng).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [haw??m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [haw??m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [haw??m??]

Verb

hong • (????, ????)

1. to dry (in the wind, sun, or near the fire)

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ho????/
• Tone numbers: hong¹
• Hyphenation: hong

Etymology 1

From Chinese ? (OC *ko??).

Noun

hong (Sawndip forms ???? or ??? or ? or ??? or ??? or ? or ? or ? or ???? or ??? or ?, old orthography ho?)

1. work; labor

   Synonym: goeng

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *????? (“thing”). Cognate with Thai ??? (k???ng), Northern Thai ???, Lao ??? (kh?ng), Lü ??? (?oang), Tai Dam ???, Shan ???? (kh?ang), Zuojiang Zhuang kong.

Noun

hong (old orthography ho?)

1. (dialectal) thing; object

   Synonyms: doenghyiengh, doxgaiq, (dialectal) swhyiengh

Zou

Verb

hong

1. open

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Probably from Romani pan (“to stink”).

Noun

pong (plural pongs)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A stench, a bad smell.
   • 1992, Bryce Courtenay, Tandia, Volume 1, 2011, Read How You Want, page 109,

     She sniffed, squiffing up her nose. ‘What a pong! Do they all smell like this?’

   • 1998, Catherine Fox, Heaven?s Scent, Third Way, page 13,

     I can remember calling round once and when she answered the door I was greeted by an unmistakable, noxious pong. “I can smell gas!”

     I said. “Oh, have I left the ring on?” she asked vaguely.

   • 2000, Susan Sallis, 2011, unnumbered page,

     ‘I see what you mean about the pong. I couldn?t smell it on myself but I can smell it on you!’

   • 2009, Martin Fine, The Devil?s Fragrance, page 109,

     If you want to empty a crowded room strong body pong will usually do the trick.

Related terms

• pongy

Translations

Verb

pong (third-person singular simple present pongs, present participle ponging, simple past and past participle ponged)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To stink, to smell bad.
   • 1997, Taufiq Ismail, David M. E. Roskies (translator and editor), Stop Thief!, Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories, page 97,

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

   • 2009, Susan Brocker, Saving Sam, HarperCollins, New Zealand, unnumbered page,

     The place ponged, like the smell of stale cat pee.

   • 2010, Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest, page 63,

     “ […] That toothless bloke ponged. Couldn?t you smell him? He smelled like a bloody pub floor at closing time.”

   • 2011, Victor Pemberton, We?ll Sing at Dawn, 2012, eBook, Headline Publishing, unnumbered page,

     […] and this evening, Eileen Perkins?s daughter Rita ponged with the smell of cheap carbolic soap, after a late-afternoon visit to the public baths down Hornsey Road.

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.
3. (slang, theater, intransitive) To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.
   • 2016, Jim Davis, European Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900

     […] 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."

Synonyms

• (stink): reek, smell, stink

Translations

Etymology 2

From ping, via the pairing of ping-pong.

Noun

pong (plural pongs)

1. (networking) A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.

Etymology 3

Noun

pong (plural pongs)

1. (mahjong) Alternative form of pung

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pong

1. ladle made from a gourd (used especially for rice beer)

Tagalog

Etymology

From Hokkien ?.

Noun

pong

1. (mahjong) A pung; a set of three identical tiles.
2. (playground games) the word that the tagged it says when catching a playmate, as in the game of hide and seek.