plonk
Plural: plonks
Noun
- a cheap wine of inferior quality
- the noise of something dropping (as into liquid)
- The sound of something solid landing.
- Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
- AC Plonk
- A female police constable.
Verb
Verb Forms: plonked, plonking, plonks
- To put something down heavily and clumsily; to plunk.
- set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
- To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
- To sit down heavily and without ceremony.
- To automatically ignore a particular poster.
Intj
- The sound made by something solid landing.
- The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.
Adv
- Precisely and forcefully.
Examples
- Chris and that plonk had better be flushing the scum out.
- He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table.
- He would often PLONK down a word, hoping it was valid without really checking.
- I got tired of his trolling and ad hominem attacks, so I plonked him.
- 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.
Origin / Etymology
Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
Synonyms
flump, plank, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down, 5-O, John Law, John Q. Law, Johnny Hopper, Mr Plod, Officer Friendly, Old Bill, PC Plod, alphabet, bang, barney, beatsman, bizzie, blue heeler, blue meanie, bluebottle, bluecoat, bobby, body snatcher, bogey, boy in blue, bull, bullyman, buttons, centenier, charpering omi, chazzer, cobbler, cop, copper, cozzer, cracker, crowns, crusher, dibble, fed, filth, finest, finger, five-o, flatfoot, flatty, fuzz, garda, gendarme, glowie, guardian of the peace, harman, harman-beck, jack, jackboot, jake, kill file, lawman, mee-maw, monarch, mutton shunter, nuthook, oinker, peeler, pig, piggy, plod, po-po, police, police officer, policeman, policeperson, polis, raw lobster, roller, rozzer, scufter, slap bang, slop, statie, swine, twelve, tyre biter, unboiled lobster, walloper, wooden-top
Scrabble Score: 11
plonk: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordplonk: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
plonk: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary