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plonk | plonko |

As nouns the difference between plonk and plonko

is that 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 while plonko is (au|informal) someone addicted to cheap wine.

As an interjection plonk

is the sound made by something solid landing.

As a verb plonk

is to set or toss (something) down carelessly.

As an adverb plonk

is (followed by a location) precisely and forcefully.

plonk

English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • The sound made by something solid landing.
  • (Internet) The supposed sound of adding a user to one's killfile.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) The sound of something solid landing.
  • I just heard a plonk — did something fall down in the kitchen?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
  • When you’ve finished with the sponge, just plonk it back in the sink.
  • (transitive, Internet, slang, in Internet forums) To automatically ignore a particular poster; to killfile.
  • I got tired of his trolling and ''ad hominem'' attacks, so I plonked him.
    Derived terms
    * plonker

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (followed by a location) Precisely and forcefully.
  • He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table.
    Synonyms
    * bang * slap bang

    Derived terms

    * plonker

    Etymology 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

    (-)
  • (uncountable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
  • * 1998 , Pierre Spahni, Swiss Wine Market Report , 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.
  • * 2003 , Joan del Monte, Plonk Goes the Weasel , 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 .”
  • * 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 , 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.

    Etymology 3

    Probably a shortening of plonker.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Chris and that plonk had better be flushing the scum out.
    Synonyms
    * See

    plonko

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (AU, informal) someone addicted to cheap wine.
  • * 1978 , Bill Mollison, Coral Everitt, The Tasmanian Aborigines and their descendants
  • Then there's the mob of plonkos who sleep down at the dockside, less than 700 yards from the city's Town Hall.

    See also

    *boozehound *wino