plonk

1. The sound made by something solid landing.
2. InternetThe supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.

plural plonks

1. countableThe sound of something solid landing.

   I just heard a plonk – did something fall down in the kitchen?

present singular third person plonks · participle present plonking · participle past plonked · past plonked

1. transitiveTo set or toss (something) down carelessly.

   When you’ve finished with the sponge, just plonk it back in the sink.

   2 more examples

   We sat alfresco on the edge of a “square,” in reality a pond of cobbly mud with a plinth plonked in its navel […]

   2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN

   Catrin: You just plonk a white coat on – and you think that’s enough? ¶ For Halloween? ¶ In the Big End? ¶ You fuckin’ disgust me…

   2010, Gary Owen, Love Steals Us from Loneliness, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, page 16

2. reflexiveTo sit down heavily and without ceremony.

   Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.

   2009 October 2, John Vidal, “'Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   1 more example

   Changing trains at Hereford, I catch the West Midlands Class 170 that is waiting for me at Platform 1. Plonking myself in a table bay, I settle in to enjoy the trip on what is another quiet train - well, until Ledbury, where a couple of dozen people are waiting.

   2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67

3. InternettransitiveTo automatically ignore or block a particular poster.

   I got tired of his trolling and ad hominem attacks, so I plonked him.

   Synonyms: kill file

1. not comparablePrecisely and forcefully.

   He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table.

   Synonyms: bang, slap bang

1. CommonwealthIrelandUKinformaluncountableCheap or inferior everyday wine.

   Diesel took a large swallow out of the glass of red wine. He spluttered, choked, and spilled wine down one leg of his fawn colored pants. “My God,” he gasped, when he could speak. “What is that crap?” “Why cheap red wine,” Ford displayed the label. “You know. Plonk.”

   2003, Joan del Monte, Plonk Goes the Weasel, page 201

   2 more examples

   The third category of wines is highly unattractive as these may only be sold as generic wines (white, red or rosé), without reference to any geographical location. Only surplus plonk and cooking wine would aspire to fall in this segment, which can be blended with any other wine - to any extent.

   1998, Pierre Spahni, Swiss Wine Market Report, page 95

   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.

2. historicalslanguncountablegovernmentAC Plonk

plural plonks

1. IrelandUKcountablederogatoryslanggovernmentA female police constable.First known use in the 1970s

   Chris and that plonk had better be flushing the scum out.

   Synonyms: 5-O, alphabet, barney, beatsman, bizzie, bluebottle, bluecoat, blue heeler

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