Plop vs Plunk - What's the difference?
plop | plunk |
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.
To drop or throw heavily (onto or into something) so that it makes a sound
In baseball, to intentionally hit the batter with a pitch
As verbs the difference between plop and plunk
is that plop is to make the sound of liquid hitting a hard surface while plunk is to drop or throw heavily (onto or into something) so that it makes a sound.As a noun plop
is a sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface.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:
plunk
English
Verb
(en verb)- Enrique plunked his money down on the counter with a sigh and bellied up to the bar.
- The Braves retaliated by plunking Harper in the next inning.
