Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pong
Participle: ponged
Gerund: ponging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | pong |
| you | pong |
| he;she;it | pongs |
| we | pong |
| you | pong |
| they | pong |
Perfect
| I | have ponged |
| you | have ponged |
| he;she;it | has ponged |
| we | have ponged |
| you | have ponged |
| they | have ponged |
Past
| I | ponged |
| you | ponged |
| he;she;it | ponged |
| we | ponged |
| you | ponged |
| they | ponged |
Pluperfect
| I | had ponged |
| you | had ponged |
| he;she;it | had ponged |
| we | had ponged |
| you | had ponged |
| they | had ponged |
Future
| I | will pong |
| you | will pong |
| he;she;it | will pong |
| we | will pong |
| you | will pong |
| they | will pong |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ponged |
| you | will have ponged |
| he;she;it | will have ponged |
| we | will have ponged |
| you | will have ponged |
| they | will have ponged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pong |
| you | pong |
| he;she;it | pong |
| we | pong |
| you | pong |
| they | pong |
Perfect
| I | have ponged |
| you | have ponged |
| he;she;it | have ponged |
| we | have ponged |
| you | have ponged |
| they | have ponged |
Imperfect
| I | ponged |
| you | ponged |
| he;she;it | ponged |
| we | ponged |
| you | ponged |
| they | ponged |
Pluperfect
| I | had ponged |
| you | had ponged |
| he;she;it | had ponged |
| we | had ponged |
| you | had ponged |
| they | had ponged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pong |
| you | would pong |
| he;she;it | would pong |
| we | would pong |
| you | would pong |
| they | would pong |
Perfect
| I | would have ponged |
| you | would have ponged |
| he;she;it | would have ponged |
| we | would have ponged |
| you | would have ponged |
| they | would have ponged |
Imperative
| you | pong |
| we | Let's pong |
| you | pong |
Verbs conjugated like 'pong'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'pong'
bong,
dong,
gong,
hong,
long,
pang,
ping,
pond,
pony,
prong,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Probably from Romani pan (“to stink”).
Sample Sentences
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“Give them a drink of this and thy father shall see them as they are. They shall speak from their black hearts.” “Pongs a bit,” sniffed Carrot. “Sure it's not poisonous?” [1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 174:]
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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,
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On she walked at a crawling pace, ponging of sweat, drops of mucus and blood falling between her feet.
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2009, Susan Brocker, Saving Sam, HarperCollins, New Zealand, unnumbered page,
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The place ponged, like the smell of stale cat pee.
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“[…]That toothless bloke ponged. Couldn′t you smell him? He smelled like a bloody pub floor at closing time.” [2010, Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest, page 63:]
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2011, Victor Pemberton, We′ll Sing at Dawn, 2012, eBook, Headline Publishing, unnumbered page,
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[…] 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.
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[…] 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." [2016, Jim Davis, European Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900:]