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English
Etymology
From Welsh popty (“oven”) and English ping (“high-pitched sound”).
Noun
popty ping (plural popty pings)
- (UK, humorous) 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?
2014, Pete Barry, You're Having a Larf!: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.
2023, Matt Pritchard, Dirty Vegan Fast and Easy:Most of us don't want to bung a microwave meal into the popty ping (only for it to come out hot enough to burn your mouth off).
Usage notes
- Often falsely claimed to be the Welsh phrase for a microwave oven, and thus may be used in Welsh contexts.