Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Variant of plunk.
- n. Chiefly British Slang Cheap or inferior wine.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
- n. countable (dated, UK, law enforcement, slang) 1970s UK police slang for a female police constable.
- interj. The sound made by something solid landing.
- interj. Internet The supposed sound of adding a user to one's killfile.
- n. countable The sound of something solid landing.
- v. transitive To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
- v. transitive, Internet, slang To automatically ignore a particular poster; to killfile.
- adv. followed by a location Precisely and forcefully.
WordNet 3.0
- v. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
- n. a cheap wine of inferior quality
- n. the noise of something dropping (as into liquid)
Etymologies
- Probably a shortening of plonker. (Wiktionary)
- 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). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Their wine might be as good as the lovely plonk from the Central Valley.”
Rocks for shocks: geologists don’t “debunk” terroir; minerality questioned | Dr Vino's wine blog
“Me and my fellow bloggers had some that we'd call plonk at best.”
The Huffington Post: Mary Orlin: Virginia Is for Viognier Lovers (Not Earthquakes)
“The country is already renowned for its cheaper offerings, known as plonk; for the first time this year, a dry wine by Chile's Concha y Toro beat out Italy's syrupy Riunite as the top U.S. wine import.”
“The source of the terrifying "plonk" is soon revealed as nothing worse than darts hitting a target.”
“(The slang is new to me, but nothing with "plonk" in it can be complimentary.)”
“It was at the complete fall of darkness that the door slammed closed, and half a dozen shots rang out through the building, followed by the "plonk" of the bullets embedding themselves in the solid logs immediately behind where the rancher had been standing.”
“VALUE: Nicely balanced, varietally correct > Well above the "plonk" level at a price that pretty much marks the bottom end for quality in today's market.”
“About a month ago my G string started sounding more like 'plonk' than 'riiiinng'.”
“The country that gave the world premium sake and award-winning malt whiskies has been infamous for producing the kind of plonk that gives wine a bad name ‑ often blends of cheap imports and even grape juice.”
“• Quit the piano and the violin, especially if their defeatist attitude coincided with a recital, thus saving me from the torture of listening to other people's precious children soldier through hackneyed pieces of the juvenile repertoire, plink after ever more unbearable plonk.”
The Wall Street Journal: In Defense of the Guilty, Ambivalent, Preoccupied Western Mom
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plonk’.
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 242 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like.
(dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)
gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 102 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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A List Of The Cutest Words Ever Created!
HEE OK LETS DO IT! I'm v.v. excited! (with thanks to whichbe, Lampbane, bilby, effigy, frogapplause, and fredrx!)
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buzzwords
oddities of any kind
recuse, sipe, mullion, cairngorm, gormless, thole, drug, rutch, plonk, yips, gurry, reredos and 8 more...
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Onk-tastic
Words containing the sound /ŏngk/.
Algonquin, Cronkite, Tonka, Tonkin, Wonka, Yonkers, bonk, bonkers, bronco, broncobuster, conk, conker and 53 more...
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EN - rare verbs
fornicate, enfranchise, tweet, natter, fetter, devil, cork, bunker, canoe, backstroke, carom, queer and 52 more...
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food words
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nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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caspermilktoast's Words
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kakistocracy, conflagration, pollyanna, equanimity, punctillious, obstreperous, ribald, belligerent, truculent, verbose, lachrymose, onanism and 278 more...
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p is for...
my favorite voiceless bilabial plosive.
panacea, persnickety, panache, provenance, preternatural, penumbra, perfunctory, perspicacity, potentate, pinguid, plainsong, pleonastic and 228 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
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Words to use at the Joynt
obstreperous, calibogus, ouzo, pitcher-man, arfarfanarf, drunkensides, pyrogenesis, amphiboly, gobemouche, cacoethes, slubberdegullion, diplopic and 107 more...
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