Plink vs Plop - What's the difference?
plink | plop |
(colloquial) To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.
* 1971: Louis C. Reichman, Barry J. Wishart, American Politics and Its Interpreters
* 1997: Kevin Osborn, Signe Larson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bringing Up Baby
* 2004: Angela Elwell Hunt, The Truth Teller
A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface.
(British) slang for excrement, derived from the "plop" sound made when the former hits water in a toilet.
To make the sound of liquid hitting a hard surface.
To land heavily or loosely.
:: There was a world inside that tall grass. You could plop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.
(British) To excrete, derived from the "plop" sound made when excrement hits water in a toilet.
As a noun plink
is a short, high-pitched sound.As a verb plink
is (colloquial) to play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.As a proper noun plop is
(software).plink
English
Verb
(en verb)- He can plink out Let Me Call You Sweetheart for reporters on a piano or rib himself on television talk shows....
- Your child may also begin to plink out a few notes on a xylophone or toy piano before her first birthday.
- The female deputy sat down at the ramshackle piano and proceeded to plink out the opening notes of "Heart and Soul."
plop
English
Noun
(en noun)- He heard the plops of rain on the roof.
Verb
(plopp)- He plopped down on the sofa to watch TV.
- 2009 , Reif Larson, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet , Pinguin Books, p. 37: