Plonk

//plɑŋk//

"Plonk" in a Sentence (15 examples)

This plonk is surprisingly gluggable.

Just plonk yourself down in this comfy chair and sit awhile.

Just plonk it down on that endtable over by the couch, thanks.

It's a $600,000 microscope, don't just plonk it down like a farmer tossing sacks on a truck.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.”

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.

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

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