Did you perchance mean plonked?
Etymologies
- From plonk + -er. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Everyone from other countries must be just looking at him and thinking "plonker”
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“I don't know why, butI can't work out whether it is embarrassing or entertaining to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury saying 'plonker'.”
“He handled the questions of his near blindness and his daughter's death without any obvious plays for public sympathy, thus gaining more of it, and he remained unflustered by Morgan's irreverent approach - at one stage the prime minister was asked if he was a "plonker".”
“On the other hand, her father received a full page of positive publicity about his property, and, I understand, the morning after the dreaded "plonker" article appeared, a bunch of flowers from his house agent, the cost of which may or may not be subtracted from their commission at a later date.”
“Despite having countless comedy geniuses yell "plonker" at him on the streets, he doesn't hate the role that made him.”
“for those of us on the other side of the world, can you explain "plonker"?”
“Further to the comment from Mervyn Harris about the "plonker" Nicholas Lyndhurst (”
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“I am glad they managed to fit you up, old boy – You sure, in my opinion was a plonker and never should have made it past sergeant. on February 9, 2010 at 10: 10 am Retired Sgt”
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“Im not a policeman or indeed policewoman but Im sure Jon Smith is a plonker.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plonker’.
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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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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
kringlan's Words
fecund, riposte, nebbish, nonpareil, deign, eschew, imbroglio, spelunking, fop, foofaraw, tundra, talon and 128 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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wot's all this, then?
Britishisms and Anglophilia - Mencken has a great, if dated, list of comparisons between the British and American words here.
aluminium, gobsmacked, queue, lift, bin, rubbish, navvy, ironmonger, treacle, parcel, constable, monkey-nut and 45 more...
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my kith & kin
;)
villain, wanker, fool, tosser, shyster, scoundrel, ratbag, rascal, spazz, wastrel, phony, moron and 41 more...
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Bill Bryson's Agreeable Words
These are words Mr. Bryson thinks sound especially nice, or are perfect for what they describe.
granola, globule, scrapie, snooze, chortle, clank, grasp, dribble, bloat, galoshes, pandemonium, transubstantiation and 18 more...
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doublefourtime's Words
misogyny, twat, music, tuppence, apathy, moor, chuckle, conversation, ninja, bloody, gymkhana, naïve and 61 more...
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sweary befuddlement
buggerated fuckst..., jings, crivens, help ma boab, stramash, bampot, wheesht, bollocks, knob, pants, wanker, sheer wankitude and 28 more...
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Favourite Insults
wanker, bozo, crackpot, twerp, smarty pants, clodhopper, blackguard, frump, wimp, bumpkin, dick head, chump and 37 more...
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Reasons why I wish I were British
God I love British words, especially combined with that tasty accent of theirs...
bloke, buttocks, blimey, bloody hell, bobbie, chip shop, chuffed, liverpudlian, crikey, crumpet, daft, doss and 20 more...
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Distinctly British
Mostly but not limited to slang and some cockney guffy wibble
haberdashery, coventry, knackered, cack-handed, bate, bimble, blag, boffin, bonce, brolly, busk, cack and 71 more...
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Selected words from the Queen's English
British words/phrases/slang I love using in everyday conversation.
yob, wotcher, wotsit, arse, balls-up, barmy, bint, bloke, blimey, bobby, bollocks, brolly and 78 more...
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Munks's list
wasted, plonker, all in a days work, oblivious, solace, peccadillo, persnickety, subjugate
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