Plank vs Plonk - What's the difference?
plank | plonk |
A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.
Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
(British, slang) A stupid person, idiot.
That which supports or upholds.
* Southey
To cover something with planking.
* Dryden
To bake (fish) on a piece of cedar lumber.
* 1998 , Richard Gerstell, American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin (page 147)
(colloquial) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.
* 2011' May 23, ''
* 2011 May 24,
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
In transitive terms the difference between plank and plonk
is that plank is to harden, as hat bodies, by felting while plonk is to set or toss (something) down carelessly.As an interjection plonk is
the sound made by something solid landing.As an adverb plonk is
precisely and forcefully.plank
English
Noun
(en noun)- His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* plank spankerVerb
(en verb)- to plank a floor or a ship
- Planked with pine.
- Along the lower river, planked shad dinners (baked and broiled) were highly popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- to plank money in a wager
Party finishes up in plonking after attempt at '''plankingin Kingsford]'', in ''[[w:Herald Sun, Herald Sun] ,
- The woman, known as Claudia, fell from a 2m wall after earlier demonstrating the wrong way to plank' on a small stool while holding a bottle of wine. A friend said some guests had not heard of ' planking and Claudia was demonstrating how ridiculous it was.
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- Perth man Simon Carville became an internet sensation after he was photographed planking naked in the arms of famous Perth statue the Eliza.
plonk
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.
