Definition of "pong"

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

1992, Bryce Courtenay, Tandia, Volume 1, 2011, Read How You Want, page 109

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.

1998, Catherine Fox, Heaven′s Scent: Third Way, page 13

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

2000, Susan Sallis, 2011, unnumbered page

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

2009, Martin Fine, The Devil′s Fragrance, page 109

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

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

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

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

“ […] 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

[…] 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.

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

[…] 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