Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pongy adj.

smelly.

1936		‘Taffrail’ Mystery at Milford Haven 153: ‘Kippers!’ she groaned. ‘They are a bit pongy sometimes,’ Victor had to confess.
1958		C. Lee diary 13 Jan. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 16: Nice enough blokes. Smelt a bit pongy.
1964		R. Helmer Stag Party 48: Hunter slopes off to some other camp and leaves the tucker to go pongy.
1967		J. Burke Till Death Us Do Part 84: I bet it gets a bit pongy-wongy in the summer, eh?
1972		S. Fugard Castaways 8: The sweat of him, not as pongy as the Caffre, but ripe, an odour of a man.
1975		Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 3 Aug. 2/2: After lunch the pongy wharf became too much for us [OED].
1983		J.P. Donleavy Leila 89: And by the smell of her she has worked up one of her more highly musty pongy sweats.
1999		Indep. Weekend Rev. 12 June 25: We chanced upon the cheese-drenched gorgonzola and radicchio. It was a pongy delight.
2004		R. Nickford Twists in the Tale 12: A lady in a white coat had given him a tiny plastic beaker and stirred for him the pongy medicine inside.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 189: [A] pongy, passive/aggressive brute whose hygiene was on a par with The Noor Jahan Under New Ownership.