Plonk

/plɒŋk/ · interjection

Meaning

The sound made by something solid landing..

Definitions by Sense

1. The sound made by something solid landing.
2. (Internet) The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.
3. (countable) The sound of something solid landing.
4. (transitive) To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
5. (reflexive) To sit down heavily and without ceremony.
6. (transitive, Internet slang) To automatically ignore a particular poster.
7. (followed by a location) Precisely and forcefully.
8. (uncountable, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Cheap or inferior everyday wine.

Example Sentences

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.

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

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.

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