plonk

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WHAM the windows and door go shut - mute, defollow, defriend, delink ... whatever. * plonk* so-called SLebrity or griefer or jackass is goooooooooone gater, tater!

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  1. verb Variant of plunk.
  2. noun Chiefly British Slang Cheap or inferior wine.

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  • Within an hour I'd got plastered on white plonk, and that evening was thankful it was Sunday. —  The Vatican Rip-Jonathan Gash- Lovejoy 05
  • Nora told us Lieber drank the kind of plonk that comes in jugs. —  AHMM,April2008
  • It may be that my palate has been spoiled by imbibing too much literary plonk, but The King in the Window seems like the real thing to me, a book both wise and witty that, like the fine wines the redoubtable Mrs. Pearson savors, will withstand the test of time Back to Table of Contents Many years have passed since the last time we serialized a story in this magazine. —  FSF,January2006
  • To prevent counterfeiters from filling authentic old bottles with ordinary plonk, Williams intends to combine the ion beam test with another established method that checks for levels of a radioactive isotope, cesium 137, in the wine itself. —  IOL Technology
  • I was gleefully pouring the plonk, it wasn't good enough to be called wine, for a chatty table of four. —  Irish Blogs
 

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  1. Short for earlier plink-plonk, perhaps alteration of French vin blanc, white wine : vin, wine (from Old French; see vinegar) + blanc, white (from Old French; see blank).
 

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