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British slang dating from the mid to late nineteenth century, meaning soldiers. Soldiers were not popular at this time as Kipling’s poem Tommy shows (Barrack Room Ballads 1892). The word itself stems from expressions used by comedians in theatres and music halls to get a cheap laugh. The two that are most commonly quoted are "where the army goes the pong goes", or “when the wind blows the pong goes”, pong meaning smell. This quickly became pongoes meaning soldiers plural and pongo meaning an individual. Another possible explanation is that the soldiers were being likened to a large, hairy, smelly ape called a pongo. The expression is still in use today although not common, confined mainly to those who saw service in World War II or Korea (very few now) or who did National Service in Britain while this was still compulsory.
Ambulance chasing lawyers, seeking compensation for terrorists, still see soldiers as pongoes.
Pongoes by AKACroatalin September 9, 2016
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poobooking 

Poobooking is the act of checking Facebook while you are sitting on the toilet taking a poo.
"What's taking you so long in the bathroom? Are you poobooking again?"
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pogonophobic 

I can't sit next to that bearded man- you know i'm pogonophobic!!
pogonophobic by Clare Lawry April 11, 2007

pogonophilia 

The admiration or promotion of people, usually males, who wear a facial beard. From pogon, Greek for beard.
Used also as a term of disapproval for those who enjoy trials and tribulations and make a drama out of a crisis, from pogo stick.
A man who gives unqualified credibility to another who wears a beard is an act of pogonophilia.
Ideas excite and make anxious the man who suffers pogonophilia.
pogonophilia by The Last Bear February 4, 2008

pogonophile 

Someone who has pogonophilia and loves beards, or finds a man with a beard more physically attractive than a man without a beard.
*Man with clean shave walks into room*
Woman without pogonophilia: "Finally - there's a cutie."
Woman with pogonophilia (pogonophile): "Hmm... he's cute, maybe."
*Man with beard walks into room*

Woman with pogonophilia: "Now that's a man."
Woman without pogonophilia: "What about food getting stuck in it?"
*Woman with pogonophilia is already talking to man with beard*
pogonophile by Chopper7775 May 26, 2014

Pogo-penis 

When someones penis becomes so hard that they can hop around on it like a little pogo stick.
His penis was so hard that he hopped down the street on it. He had a case of pogo-penis.
Pogo-penis by The wingwang man December 7, 2021
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