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picong

picong noun: a kind of informal banter, often lightly pejorative but rarely mean-spirited, strongly associated with the lyrics of calypso music.

Noun

picong (uncountable)

  1. (Caribbean) A kind of informal banter, often lightly pejorative but rarely mean-spirited, strongly associated with the lyrics of calypso music.

Proper noun capitalized: Picong

Picong

  1. A municipality of Lanao del Sur, Philippines.

Origin of picong

From French piquant, via creole. Doublet of piquant.

Questions about picong

What does picong mean?
Picong means a kind of informal banter, often lightly pejorative but rarely mean-spirited, strongly associated with the lyrics of calypso music.
What part of speech is picong?
Picong can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near picong in the dictionary

  1. Picones
  2. piconet
  3. piconets
  4. piconewton
  5. piconewtons
  6. picong
  7. piconol
  8. picons
  9. picophotoautotroph
  10. picophotoautotrophs
  11. picophototroph

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Adapted from Wiktionary: picong (page history and authors); Picong (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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