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▪ I. plunk, v. colloq.|plʌŋk|
[In senses 1 and 2 app. echoic; sense 3 may be the same, or an altered form of plump: cf. also northern Fr. plonquer to plunge. Sense 4 may be from plunk n. Sense 5 is of obscure origin: cf. early mod.Du. plencken ‘vagari, divagari, palari, errare’ (Kilian). There may be two or three different words here.]
I.
1. a. trans. To pluck (a string) so as to cause an abrupt vibratory sound; to twang sharply. Also, to play (a note) or pick out (a melody) on a stringed instrument.
1805A. Scott Poems (1808) 229 Let Europe plunk her fiddle strings, Till them to unison she brings. 1898Chicago Advance 31 Mar. 436/1 Robert marched out plunking the banjo, Charles rattling the bones. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. (1958) xx. 254 She reached her majority plunking two bass notes with her left hand. 1973Time 25 June 94/3 Hungate got to tinkering at the piano one day and in 15 minutes plunked out a ditty he calls Down at the Old Watergate.
b. intr. To make a plunking sound.
1903Cosmopolitan Sept. 484 Street pianos plunk away unweariedly. 1929[see gubble v.]. 1946D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist iii. 35 Into southern Utah they came trekking, with fine fat oxen, with meal sacks under the seats, and banjos plunking. 1978G. Vidal Kalki vi. 153 Deafening was what H. V. W. would call the din from the rock stars' dressing rooms where electric guitars whined, drums rattled, sitars plunked.
2. intr. To croak or cry as a raven. Sc.
a1800Scotch Song (Jam.), The corpie plunkin' i' the bog, Made a' my flesh turn cauld.
II.
3. a. intr. To plump, to drop down abruptly.
1808Jamieson, Plunk, v.n., to plunge with a dull sound, to plump. 1888E. Mott in Chicago Herald (Farmer), B' that time the ol' man had plunked inter a bar'l. 1891J. H. Pearce Esther Pentreath i. i. 15 He ‘plunked-down’ all-of-a-heap on a neighbouring balk of timber.
b. trans. To place or set down heavily. Also refl. to ‘let oneself fall’. Cf. plump v.1 2.
1899G. W. Peck Peck's Uncle Ike & Red Headed Boy (1903) xxii. 194 The old man plunked down two dollars..and they went and got seats on the bleachers. 1936R. Lehmann Weather in Streets i. 222 The woman..plunked a great unappetising tray on my bed. 1943A. Ransome Picts & Martyrs v. 46, I say, Dot, when you've plunked the roses in her room... Some on the dressing-table. 1963New Statesman 11 Jan. 38/1 A pair of steel nuts that another worker inadvertently plunks on a plate. 1976D. Heffron Crusty Crossed xi. 85, I went into the bedroom and plunked myself down on our bed. 1977Time 29 Aug. 24/1 He [sc. Elvis Presley] had wandered into Sun Records with his guitar, two summers before, plunked down $4 to sing a couple of tunes to his mother.
c. intr. To opt for. Cf. plump v.1 5.
1948A. H. Vandenberg Let. 6 Dec. in Vandenberg & Morris Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg (1953) xxi. 414 We should smack down the Russkies more effectively in our speeches in the UN Council and Assembly... I plunk with you for ‘curt decisiveness’ mixed with ‘derision’.
III. 4. a. trans. To drive or propel with a sudden push (? like a cork from a bottle).
1884A. A. Putnam Ten Yrs. Police Judge v. 29 The especial bull's-eyes which the rocks of reform were aimed to hit, and, as it were plunk out. 1893Kipling Many Invent. 104 The moving galley's bow was plunking them [oars] back through their own oar holes. 1899J. Colville Scott. Vernacular 11 (E.D.D.) Whin and broom pods plunkt their peas on ruddy cheeks.
b. trans. To hit, wound, shoot. slang (orig. U.S.).
1888Texas Siftings 21 Apr. 12 (caption) He'd jest swallerd brother Bill afore I plunked him. 1891Outing Nov. 138/2, I would plunk the big gobbler I could distinguish from where I lay. 1896[see outasight a.]. 1916C. J. Dennis Songs of Sentimental Bloke 42 Romeo..Plunks Tyball through the gizzard wiv 'is sword. 1916H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 120 Darned if he didn't up with this here air gun..and plunk me with a buckshot it carried. 1937D. & H. Teilhet Feather Cloak Murders xvi. 286, I wish you'd killed Jeff instead of plunking him in the leg. 1978L. Pryor Viper iii. 41 We..plunked about five hundred clay birds a day.
IV.
5. intr. and trans. To play the truant; to be a truant from. Sc.
1808Jamieson, To Plunk,..to play the truant. 1870J. Nicholson Idylls 36 Shinties to fung the fleeing bool, An' aiblins gar me plunk the schule. 1898N. Brit. Daily Mail 28 Oct. 2 He and his brother ‘plunked’ the school frequently, and were afraid to go home.
Hence ˈplunking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1941W. C. Handy Father of Blues xviii. 246, I had been everlastingly at the piano, forever picking out notes and chords for Long Gone but never playing anything consistently. A victim of all this plunking had been her parrot. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in America (1958) vi. 65 With this considerable rhythmic skill, however, went something less engaging, a plunking insistence on the beat. 1973‘B. Mather’ Snowline x. 123 The plunking of an out-of-tune guitar. 1979G. Hammond Dead Game vi. 77 A bullet that's been deflected by passing through something..may make a plunking sort of sound.
▪ II. plunk, n., adv., int. Chiefly dial.
[f. plunk v.]
A. n.
1. The action of the verb plunk; the resonant sound of a heavy blow, or of a plunge; the blow or plunge itself; also, the sound made by the drawing of a cork, etc.
1809T. Batchelor Anal. Eng. Lang. 140 Pelsy, Plungk, a blow. 1813G. Bruce Poems ii. 166 In his guid naig's fat rump it [a dirk] stuck: Whilk nae being us'd to sic a plunk, Gae suddenly a fearfu' funk. 1822Blackw. Mag. Sept. 313/1 The King's name, and the plunk of corks drawn to drink his health, resounded in every house. 1834L. Ritchie Wand. by Seine 167 We hear..the pistol-like report of beer, and the more soberly alluring plunk! of wine-corks. 1900Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 2/1 Suddenly there was a plunk! splash! Haw-haw-ooof! 1901G. Douglas Ho. w. Green Shutters 59 Swipey..planted a gob of mud right in the middle of his brow... Beneath the wet plunk of the mud John started back.
2. slang.
†a. A large sum, a fortune. Obs.
b. A dollar. U.S.
1767J. Wedgwood in Life x. (1894) 102 He is in no danger of making a Plunk, or what would be esteemed a Fortune by any other than a little country manufacturer. 1891J. Maitland Amer. Slang Dict. 207 Plunk (Am.), a dollar. 1901H. McHugh John Henry 12 Sarah Bernhardt at five plunks a chair. 1909W. G. Davenport Butte & Montana beneath X-Ray 56 Make it 25 plunks and let it go at that. 1929Wodehouse Gentleman of Leisure xiii. 107 Dere's a loidy here..dat's got a necklace of jools what's worth a hundred t'ousand plunks.
B. adv. and int. With a plunking noise; plump.
1892‘Mark Twain’ Amer. Claimant xix. 196 Feel my pulse: plunk—plunk—plunk. 1894[W. D. Latto] Tammas Bodkin xxx, Afore ye cud hae said sax the train played plunk into Moncrieff Tunnel. 1895‘Ian Maclaren’ Brier Bush v. 188 They slip aff sudden in the end, and then they juist gang plunk. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXX. 114/2 He poised on the edge of the pier. Then he went down—plunk—and came up in a moment. 1897Crockett Lad's Love v. 52 [Peas] are a' vera weel in broth, but if ye got them plunk on the jaw wi' a strong chairge o' powder ahint them, they might bring the water to your e'en. 1936A. Ransome Pigeon Post xxvii. 292 They heard the noise up in the top of the wood... Plunk, plunk, plunk, and the rhythmic scraw of a saw.
Also redup. ˈplunkety-ˈplunk; also attrib.
1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn. viii. 63, I hear a plunkety-plunk, plunkety-plunk, and says to myself, horses coming. 1960Twentieth Cent. Dec. 556 The plunkety-plunk banjo sound. |