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plonked | plinked |

As verbs the difference between plonked and plinked

is that plonked is past tense of plonk while plinked is past tense of plink.

plonked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (plonk)

    • 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

    References

    English onomatopoeias

    plinked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (plink)

    • plink

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short, high-pitched sound

    • Related terms

    * (go "plink") to make a short, high pitched sound, to break while making a "plink" sound, : ''The lightbulb went "plink".

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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
    • He can plink out Let Me Call You Sweetheart for reporters on a piano or rib himself on television talk shows....
  • * 1997: Kevin Osborn, Signe Larson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bringing Up Baby
    • Your child may also begin to plink out a few notes on a xylophone or toy piano before her first birthday.
  • * 2004: Angela Elwell Hunt, The Truth Teller
    • The female deputy sat down at the ramshackle piano and proceeded to plink out the opening notes of "Heart and Soul."
    English onomatopoeias