Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To fall with a sound like that of an object falling into water without splashing.
- v. To let the body drop heavily: Exhausted, I plopped into the armchair.
- v. To drop or set heavily, with or as if with a plopping sound: plopped the child into the stroller.
- n. A plopping sound or movement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To fall or plump into water. Mrs. Gaskell, Mary Barton.
Wiktionary
- n. A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface.
- n. UK slang for excrement, derived from the "plop" sound made when the former hits water in a toilet.
- v. To make the sound of liquid hitting a hard surface.
- v. To land heavily or loosely.
- v. UK To excrete, derived from the "plop" sound made when excrement hits water in a toilet.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To fall, drop, or move in any way, with a sudden splash or slap, as on the surface of water.
- n. Act of plopping; the sound made in plopping.
WordNet 3.0
- v. drop something with a plopping sound
- n. the noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash
- v. drop with the sound of something falling into water
- adv. with a short hollow thud
- v. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
Etymologies
- Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“_plop, plop, plop_ -- like the feet of a moose falling in shallow water -- sounded from the shore below, where Simmo was concealed.”
“After the same voice declares the size of the winnings (for instance, "medium"), the kettle inside the glass case begins rattling and shaking, and to the sounds of popping corn, slotto balls plop from the cooker and land in a tube, revealing the exact number of bonus credits — all of this supposedly being a great incentive to keep playing.”
“Down in the creek pool, underneath the road, I heard a loud "plop" -- indicating that I had surprised and disturbed something that had previously been minding its own business there on the nice, warm banks.”
“When I take a dump, I get up on all fours on the toilet seat backwards and let ‘em plop from a foot or two up.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Well trained cat with crappy footing
“De Saint Phalle's new pieces are the epitome of what has come to be dismissed as "plop" art: big bits of undemanding, adequately pleasing stuff plonked down here and there across the urban landscape, without any special reason for being where they are.”
The Washington Post: Sculptures add color to New York Avenue, but are they art?
“And where does science say anything about where a putative designer would "plop" a code?”
“The wail through the air and the soft "plop" of the gas shells seemed attuned to the dirge-like soughing of the wind.”
“He hurled the greeny, spiny oval against the window ledge where it burst with the peculiar "plop," which only a wild cucumber of a certain stage of juicy plumpness can make.”
“First thing I know I hear somethin 'behind me go' plop 'and I looked roun and there lay Jack jes stretched out.”
“The soft 'plop' and splash of the falling body, well weighted with stones, was music to his ear.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plop’.
-
Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
-
Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 242 more...
-
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 106 more...
-
sound (quiet)
words for quiet sounds
( randomness, descriptive )sigh, murmur, whisper, whir, rustle, patter, hum, snap, hiss(sss), crackle, bleat, peep and 185 more...
-
everything
everythin?
a, i, aardvark, abdominals, any, anti-, ash, actuall, actually, add, abs, ass and 43 more...
-
DesiluTrektionary
Wordie newbie/
Professional copy editorcraven, compassionate, trek, progressive, argyle, journalism, love, consciousness, effervescence, integrity, plop, noxious and 21 more...
-
Keyboard Hopscotch
You may start on any key. You may repeat a character, or travel to an adjacent key on the keyboard. On my qwerty keyboard, I may follow s with w, e, d, x, z, a, or (repeating) s. (If you use az...
assert, weeds, trews, treed, sewer, sewed, seeds, sawer, sawed, reeds, erred, asses and 65 more...
-
Dirty Words?
flange, shunt, dictum, angina, cunctator, mastication, spelunker, shiitake, rimshot, arsole, forebulge, fecund and 34 more...
-
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.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3027 more... -
Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
-
justin's Words
braii, boerewors, lekker, viva, pap, lipodystrophy, lacticacidosis, sharp, chakalaka, defaulter, eish, oof and 256 more...
-
Baron Luke's Collection
An assortment of words, which, when used, should inject some vibrancy into your day, hopefully expunging any ennui!
expunge, cogitate, elucidate, post-haste, rebarbative, recalcitrant, smite, absquatulate, forlorn, thole, nefarious, insubordination and 124 more...
-
astrosfan's Words
pantaloons, schadenfreude, astonishing, eve, static, freeze, luscious, voluptuous, stagnant, mimic, speed, vespertillinoid and 302 more...
-
Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
-
Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
-
words I don't like very much
many frequently used by moms; words that sound dirtier than they are
crisp, grunge, cuddle, puke, smear, voucher, manipulate, fodder, coddle, fecund, chunk, hunk and 71 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for plop.
qroqqa Also Romanian for "poplar", it appears. Mar 6, 2009
reesetee Plinth. Aug 14, 2008
yarb Because its vocalisation feels like a drip forming and then dropping - the sudden commencement of the 'p', the swelling of the 'l', the hollow, pent inertia of the 'o', and the abrupt release of the 'p'. Aug 14, 2008
bilby *plops*
Dunno. Aug 14, 2008
spidershanks Why is this such a pleasing, amusing word? Aug 14, 2008
spidershanks Why is this such a pleasing, amusing word? Aug 14, 2008