plonk

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /plɒŋk/ (US) enPR: plänk, IPA(key): /plɑŋk/ Rhymes: -ɒŋk === Etymology 1 === Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk. ==== Interjection ==== plonk The sound made by something solid landing. (Internet) The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file. ==== Noun ==== plonk (plural plonks) (countable) The sound of something solid landing. ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== plonk (third-person singular simple present plonks, present participle plonking, simple past and past participle plonked) (transitive) To set or toss (something) down carelessly. (reflexive) To sit down heavily and without ceremony. (transitive, Internet slang) To automatically ignore a particular poster. Synonym: kill file ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Adverb ==== plonk (not comparable) (followed by a location) Precisely and forcefully. ===== Synonyms ===== bang slap bang ===== Derived terms ===== plonker === Etymology 2 === From WWI military slang, derived by alteration of French vin blanc (“white wine”) by the law of Hobson-Jobson. Recorded earliest in the playful rhyming slang form plinketty-plonk. Possibly influenced by the sound of wine being poured into a glass. ==== Noun ==== plonk (uncountable) (uncountable, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Cheap or inferior everyday wine. 2011, Charles Spence, Maya U. Shankar, Heston Blumenthal, Chapter 11: ‘Sound Bites’: Auditory Contributions to the Perceeption and Consumption of Food and Drink, Francesca Bacci, David Melcher (editors), Art and the Senses, page 229, Given the results reported in this chapter, one obvious solution to the ‘plonk paradox’ (why cheap wine tastes good on holiday but terrible at home) would be to try and recapture some of these sensory impressions in one′s own living room, in order to enhance the flavour/pleasantness of the wine-drinking experience (and turn that horrible tasting wine into something that tastes really rather nice), and to elucidate the respective contributions of contextual effects on hedonic ratings. (military, slang, historical) AC Plonk ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === Probably a shortening of plonker. ==== Noun ==== plonk (plural plonks) (countable, derogatory, UK, Ireland, law enforcement slang) A female police constable. [in the 1970s] Synonyms: see Thesaurus:police officer === References ===