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popty ping

noun

Etymology

From Welsh popty (“oven”) and English ping (“high-pitched sound”).

  1. derived from ping — “high-pitched sound”

Definitions

  1. A microwave oven.

    • 2014, F. John Hurr, Light of the Damned First, could it be warmed up in a popty ping — a microwave oven — or consumed straight from the container?
    • In Wales it is known as popty-ping! / In our house it is chicken ding! / Whatever you want to call it now / It's a very clever thing somehow
    • quoted in 2020, Simon Walters, The Borisaurus: The Dictionary of Boris Johnson 'Pop it in the popty-ping.' Interview with Welsh journalist Guto Hari, 10 December 2019. Describing his Brexit deal as a meal ready to go in the microwave.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA