Plop vs Clop - What's the difference?
plop | clop |
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 nouns the difference between plop and clop
is that plop is a sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface while clop is the sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground.As verbs the difference between plop and clop
is that plop is to make the sound of liquid hitting a hard surface while clop is to make this sound.As a proper noun PLoP
is acronym of w:Pattern Languages of Programs|Pattern Languages of Programs|lang=en.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: