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plonk¹
- /plɒŋk/ UK
- /plɑŋk/ US
Rhymes with -ɒŋk
Where it comes from
Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
interjection
- The sound made by something solid landing.
- The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.
noun plonks
- The sound of something solid landing. I just heard a plonk – did something fall down in the kitchen?
verb plonks · plonking · plonked
- To set or toss (something) down carelessly. When you’ve finished with the sponge, just plonk it back in the sink.
- To sit down heavily and without ceremony. Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.
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To automatically ignore or block a particular poster.
I got tired of his trolling and ad hominem attacks, so I plonked him.
Similar: kill file
plonk²
- /plɒŋk/ UK
- /plɑŋk/ US
Rhymes with -ɒŋk
Where it comes from
From WWI military slang, derived by alteration of French vin blanc (“white wine”). Recorded earliest in the playful rhyming slang form plinketty-plonk. Possibly influenced by the sound of wine being poured into a glass.
noun
- Cheap or inferior everyday wine. 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.
- AC Plonk
plonk³
- /plɒŋk/ UK
- /plɑŋk/ US
Rhymes with -ɒŋk
Where it comes from
Probably a shortening of plonker.
noun plonks
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A female police constable.
Chris and that plonk had better be flushing the scum out.
Similar: 5-O, alphabet, barney, beatsman, bizzie, bluebottle, bluecoat, blue heeler, blue meanie, bobby, body snatcher, bogey
PLONK⁴
proper noun
- A solution stack consisting of Prometheus (metrics and time-series), Linkerd (service mesh), OpenFaaS (management and auto-scaling of compute), NATS (asynchronous message bus/queue), and Kubernetes (declarative, extensible, scale-out, self-healing clustering).
Translations
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verb To set or toss carelessly
| Deutsch | hinwerfen, hinschmeißen |
|---|---|
| Русский | плю́хать pljúxatʹ, плю́хнуть pljúxnutʹ |
verb To sit down heavily and without ceremony
| Deutsch | hinfläzen |
|---|---|
| Русский | плю́хаться pljúxatʹsja, плю́хнуться pljúxnutʹsja |
noun cheap or inferior wine
| Español | vino peleón |
|---|---|
| Português | zurrapa |
| Français | pinard, jaja, vinasse |
| Русский | бормоту́ха bormotúxa, шмурдя́к šmurdják |
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@misc{plonk_2026,
title = {plonk},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/plonk},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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