PONG.URBAN DICTIONARY.COM
- Aussie slang for 'smell'
"When Mitch farts, he really pongs."- Ancient video game, the simplest and most addictive of it's kind in which you play virtual ping pong.
- A verb meaning to beat someone in the testicles with a plank of wood from a picket fence.
- To get an apple (preferably a red one though green ones work too) whipped at your nuts at more than 55 mph.
- Intricate drinking game involving beer cups set up in particular formations on rectangular pieces of wood (which resemble ping-pong tables). Played using wooden ping-pong paddles w/o the handles (these are sawed off). Variations of alcohol used include: champong, martini pong, etc. Possible formations include: shrub, tree, ship, tower of boot, among others.
- (Jolly Pong)
A Korean puffed wheat snackfood that doubles as breakfast cereal. Tastes a bit like Honey Smacks. Has it's own interactive website, cutsie characters and cheesy jingle that gets stuck in your head.
Jolly-jolly Pong! Jolly-jolly Pong! Jo-o-o-o-o-o-o-lly PONG!
6 comments:
ahahaha.. from the commercial, it sounds like it's pronounced Poong.
I wonder what Poong means in Korean?
ok...i am korean, so, i might answer for this..
that is not supposed to be heard like "poong"
it is definitely said..."pong"
i don't know why that sounds like that, but the meaning of "pong" here is nothing in particular.
that is more likely to be a visual sound...like "pop corn".
imagine the sound of poppopop..
korean people just think of that kind of sound like "pong" also it is meant to be sounded in a "cute" version..
hope it helps you understand it..
alexxx
Haha.. well, pong IS a fairly cute word..
Thanks for the explanation! I guess it's like wham - bang!
As seunghae said, it's a visual sound - this treat comes from a long-standing tradition of Korean snacking where street vendors roam with giant coal-heated pressure cookers. People come with bags of dried corn or rice and give it to the vendors who put it into the machine with a little sugar and cook it till it 'explodes' with a big bang sound similar to a loud 'PONG!'
The name for these treats escapes my mind at present but from memory it also includes a similar sound, and since they've been around since before my mother's time (and well before Jolly Pong was created), I would assume that this is where the name comes from.
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