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Plonk

//plɑŋk// adv, intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Precisely and forcefully. not-comparable

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

Intj
  1. 1
    The sound made by something solid landing.
  2. 2
    The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file. Internet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A solution stack consisting of Prometheus (metrics and time-series), Linkerd (service mesh), OpenFaaS (management and auto-scaling of compute), NATS (asynchronous message bus/queue), and Kubernetes (declarative, extensible, scale-out, self-healing clustering).
Noun
  1. 1
    The sound of something solid landing. countable

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

  2. 2
    Cheap or inferior everyday wine. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal, uncountable

    "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."

  3. 3
    A female police constable. Ireland, UK, countable, derogatory, slang

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

  4. 4
    the noise of something dropping (as into liquid) wordnet
  5. 5
    AC Plonk historical, slang, uncountable
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  1. 6
    a cheap wine of inferior quality wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To set or toss (something) down carelessly. transitive

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

  2. 2
    set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise wordnet
  3. 3
    To sit down heavily and without ceremony. reflexive

    "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."

  4. 4
    To automatically ignore a particular poster. Internet, transitive

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.

Etymology 4

Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.

Etymology 5

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.

Etymology 6

Probably a shortening of plonker.

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