Female vs Plonk - What's the difference?
female | plonk |
Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XX chromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).
* 1987 , Don't Shoot[,] Darling!: Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia , page 350:
Belonging to the feminine (social) gender.
(grammar, less common than 'feminine') Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.
* 2012 , Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems (ISBN 1926836693), page 43:
(figuratively) Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
# A human member of the feminine sex or gender.
# An animal of the sex that produces eggs.
# (botany) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
The sound made by something solid landing.
(Internet) The supposed sound of adding a user to one's killfile.
(countable) The sound of something solid landing.
To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
(transitive, Internet, slang, in Internet forums) To automatically ignore a particular poster; to killfile.
(followed by a location) Precisely and forcefully.
(uncountable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
* 1998 , Pierre Spahni, Swiss Wine Market Report ,
* 2003 , Joan del Monte, Plonk Goes the Weasel ,
* 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 ,
English onomatopoeias
As nouns the difference between female and plonk
is that female is one of the female (feminine) sex or gender while plonk is (countable) the sound of something solid landing or plonk can be (uncountable|uk|australia|new zealand|canada|informal) cheap or inferior everyday wine or plonk can be .As a adjective female
is belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has xx chromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).As a interjection plonk is
the sound made by something solid landing.As a verb plonk is
to set or toss (something) down carelessly.As a adverb plonk is
(followed by a location) precisely and forcefully.female
English
Adjective
(-)- A travelling shot of a harbour view near Sydney's White Bay moves into a domestic interior as a female voice says, 'There was nowhere else to live except alone.'
- The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female , but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.
Synonyms
* feminine * (figuratively) socketCoordinate terms
* intersex * transgender * male * neuterDerived terms
* female-assigned, cisfemale, transfemaleNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* girl; see also * woman; see alsoSee also
* female genital mutilation * (Symbol for female) * (wikipedia) * sex, gender, gender identityReferences
* 1000 English basic wordsplonk
English
Etymology 1
OnomatopoeicInterjection
(en interjection)Noun
(en noun)- I just heard a plonk — did something fall down in the kitchen?
Verb
(en verb)- When you’ve finished with the sponge, just plonk it back in the sink.
- I got tired of his trolling and ''ad hominem'' attacks, so I plonked him.
Derived terms
* plonkerAdverb
(-)- He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table.
Synonyms
* bang * slap bangDerived terms
* plonkerEtymology 2
Fom WWI military slang, derived by alteration of (etyl) vin + blanc (“white wine”)Bruce Moore,The Vocabulary of Australian English'', Australian National Dictionary Centre. by the law of Hobson-Jobson. Recorded earliest in the playful rhyming slang form .Eric Partridge, ''A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English , Routledge & Kegan Paul Possibly influenced by the sound of wine being poured into a glass.
Noun
(-)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.
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 .”
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.