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Pong, n.3 Chiefly Austral. slang.|pɒŋ|
[Origin uncertain.]
A derogatory name for a Chinese.
1931V. Palmer Separate Lives 221 Blow into one of those Chow joints..and call for a dollar's worth of duck and fowl. Enough for two those pongs always give you. 1938X. Herbert Capricornia 339 Your grandmother was a lubra and your grandfather was a Pong. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 56 Pong, a Chinese. 1957D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse 65 He was too tall to be a Pong or an Eyetoe. 1962J. Franklyn Dict. Nicknames 86/1 Pong is a nickname given to a Chinaman in Australia—punning the ong sound in some Chinese words, and pong, a bad smell. 1970‘B. Mather’ Break in Line i. 11 I'm the only Pong I know who wouldn't say Charling Closs. |