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From plink (“to make a plink sound”, verb) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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From plink (“to make a plink sound”, verb) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.