Ploc vs Plop - What's the difference?
ploc | plop |
(nautical, historical) A mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship.
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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 ploc
is (nautical|historical) a mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship.As a proper noun plop is
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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:
