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Flopping vs Plopping - What's the difference?

flopping | plopping |

As verbs the difference between flopping and plopping

is that flopping is while plopping is .

As nouns the difference between flopping and plopping

is that flopping is the motion of something that flops while plopping is the sound or action of something that plops.

flopping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that flops.
  • * (Ezra Pound)
    • it belongs to the realm of magnetic currents or to the binding properties of steel girders and not to the floppings of grass or the contours of the parochial churchyard.

    plopping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound or action of something that plops.
  • * 2006 , John Gierach, Trout Bum (page 154)
    • There is, of course, no real silence in nature, only layer after layer of softer sounds: the rustlings, ploppings , and buzzings of God knows what, the sighing of the air and the water