plonk
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
Interjection edit
plonk
- The sound made by something solid landing.
- (Internet) The supposed sound of adding a user to one's killfile.
Noun edit
plonk (plural plonks)
- (countable) The sound of something solid landing.
- I just heard a plonk – did something fall down in the kitchen?
Verb edit
plonk (third-person singular simple present plonks, present participle plonking, simple past and past participle plonked)
- (transitive) To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
- When you’ve finished with the sponge, just plonk it back in the sink.
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
- We sat alfresco on the edge of a “square,” in reality a pond of cobbly mud with a plinth plonked in its navel […]
- (reflexive) To sit down heavily and without ceremony.
- 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
- (transitive, Internet slang) To automatically ignore a particular poster.
- Synonym: killfile
- I got tired of his trolling and ad hominem attacks, so I plonked him.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
To set or toss carelessly
To sit down heavily and without ceremony
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Adverb edit
plonk (not comparable)
- (followed by a location) Precisely and forcefully.
- He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table.
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From WWI military slang, derived by alteration of French vin blanc (“white wine”)[1] by the law of Hobson-Jobson. Recorded earliest in the playful rhyming slang form plinketty-plonk.[2] Possibly influenced by the sound of wine being poured into a glass.
Noun edit
plonk (uncountable)
- (uncountable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
- 1998, Pierre Spahni, Swiss Wine Market Report, page 95:
- 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.
- 2003, Joan del Monte, Plonk Goes the Weasel, page 201:
- 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.
- (military, slang, historical) AC Plonk
Translations edit
cheap or inferior wine
Etymology 3 edit
Probably a shortening of plonker.
Noun edit
plonk (plural plonks)
- (countable, derogatory, British, law enforcement slang) A female police constable. [in the 1970s]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:police officer
- Chris and that plonk had better be flushing the scum out.
References edit
- ^ Bruce Moore, The Vocabulary of Australian English, Australian National Dictionary Centre.
- ^ Eric Partridge (1984) Paul Beale, editor, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English […] , 8th edition, New York: Macmillan, page 898