plonkn.¹int.adv.

Brit.

/plɒŋk/, U.S.

/plɑŋk/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: plonk v.

Etymology: < plonk v. Compare earlier plonker n., and also plunk n., adv., and int., plink int. and n.

colloquial.

A. n.¹ (and int.)

A dull thudding sound, as of one solid object hitting another; (also) an abrupt, hollow, resonant noise, esp. as that emitted from a musical instrument (cf. plink int.). Also as int. (Also reduplicated.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > non-resonant sound [interjection] > thud

thud1880

plonk1903

whump1915

bonk1929

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > thud

daud1596

sosh1687

soss1718

devel1787

dump1820

thud1825

duff1859

pob1871

thrump1871

clump1891

plonk1903

plodding1905

plup1911

wumph1913

whump1915

whomp1926

whumping1928

clonking1930

bonk1933

bonking1944

thuck1948

doof1989

1903 P. G. Wodehouse Tales of St. Austin's 9 There was a beautiful, musical plonk, and the ball soared to the very opposite quarter of the field.

1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 15 June 474/1 A patois that sounds like the plonk-plonk of ping-pong balls on a hard table.

1943 H. Pearson Conan Doyle iii. 46 ‘Plonk’ went the gun [sc. an airgun], and down went the medal.

1960 Oxf. Mag. 28 Apr. 248 (advt.) The satisfying plonk of The Observer falling on the doormat.

1992 K. S. Robinson Red Mars (1993) v. 343 The magnesium-drum band picked them up into its staccato flurry of plinks and plonks.

1999 Guardian (Nexis) 19 July 16 Ping! ‘Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Air India regrets the delay to flight 747 to Rome and London, which is due to the unfortunate demise of one of our passengers.’ Ping! Plonk-plonk.

B. adv.

With, or as with, a plonk; directly, squarely; abruptly. (Also reduplicated.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adverb] > non-resonant impact sound > thud

soss1761

flump1790

thud1880

thuddingly1904

plonk1914

1914 Picture Fun 26 Dec. 2 He unfortunately pinched it just as the waiter was passing with a tray of ices, and plonk came that kangaroo's hind paws,..bang agin the old chap's tummy!

1920 Punch 10 Mar. 199/2 A befogged Zeppelin laid a couple of bombs plonk into the homestead.

1978 M. Birmingham Sleep in Ditch 118 I feel as if I'd thrown off an enormous weight. I hope it hasn't landed plonk on you.

2000 Times (Nexis) 19 Oct. (Features section) Music that often went tum-tum, lyrics that regularly went plonk-plonk.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

plonkn.²

Brit.

/plɒŋk/, U.S.

/plɑŋk/, Australian English

/plɔŋk/

Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: English blanc , vin blanc n.

Etymology: Probably representing a colloquial or humorous pronunciation of blanc (in vin blanc n.: compare discussion at that entry), probably after plonk n.¹Compare slightly earlier plinketty plonk (compare plinkety n.):1930 H. Williamson Patriot's Progress iv. 137 Nosey and Nobby shared a bottle of plinketty plonk, as vin blanc was called. Various popular etymologies have been suggested for this word (compare e.g. quot. 1967), but they do not appear to be supported by the evidence.

colloquial (originally Australian).

Cheap wine of inferior quality. Also, more generally: wine or alcohol of any kind.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [noun] > cheap or inferior wine

drum-winea1640

red ink1849

Gladstone (claret)1864

pinkie1897

dago red1906

pinard1917

ink1918

plonk1927

grocer's Graves1931

grocer's wine1931

nelly1941

Red Ned1941

vaaljapie1945

purple death1947

grocer's sherry1958

papsak2004

1927 News (Adelaide) 8 Dec. 17/3 ‘Give us a definition of “plonk”?’ asked Mr. McMillan... ‘It is a cheap wine produced in Mr. Crosby's district.’ Loud laughter greeted the sally.

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Jan. 12 The man who drinks illicit brews or ‘plonk’..by the quart does it in quiet spots or at home.

1938 H. Drake-Brockman Men without Wives (1951) 77 What cow'd be such a dope as t' waste a perishin' thirst like we got, on plonk? It's beer we want.

1967 Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 21/8 Surely the word ‘plonk’ is onomatopoeic, being the noise made when a cork is withdrawn from the bottle?

1976 Scotsman 24 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) 3/6 The author is particularly scathing about Sainsbury's Spanish plonk.

1992 Sun 16 Sept. 17/4 Pit leader Arthur Scargill's home town is to market its own plonk—with a picture of a miner on the label.

2015 T. Pinch in A. B. Antal et al. Moments of Valuation ii. 17 Anymore than cheap plonk can easily be made to taste like a top bottle of Latour Burgundy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

plonkn.³

Brit.

/plɒŋk/, U.S.

/plɑŋk/

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps compare plonk n.¹, plonker n.; perhaps compare also quot. 1943¹.

R.A.F. slang.

In full A.C. Plonk. An aircraftman of the lowest rank.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > aircraftman or woman

aircraftman1919

AC1928

erk1928

aircraftwoman1939

plonk1941

ACW1942

1941 New Statesman 30 Aug. 218/3 A.C. Plonk—Lowest in the R.A.F., aircraftman 2nd class.

1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 10 A/C Plonk, aircraftman 2nd class. In 1914–1918 ‘plonk’ was Flanders slang for ‘mud’. Hence, an A/C Plonk is an aircraftman literally in the mud or at the bottom—that is, lowest classification of the lowest rank in the R.A.F.

1943 J. S. Childers War Eagles 259 (Gloss.) Plonk, recruit.

1949 J. R. Cole It was so Late 61 I was only an A.C. plonk at the time.

2004 Lincolnshire Echo (Nexis) 25 Nov. (Nostalgia section) 25 Service veterans tell of working class lads who reached heights during the war but who were completely useless in peace and the A/c Plonk who gave the officer a job in Civvy Street.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

plonkn.⁴

Brit.

/plɒŋk/, U.S.

/plɑŋk/

Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: plonker n.

Etymology: Probably shortened < plonker n. (see T. Thorne Dict. Contemp. Slang (rev. ed., 1997) 300/2), perhaps arising from its specific sense ‘foot’, recorded in P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8, 1984) at Plonkers as in use since c1920 in London and ‘esp. among policemen’; compare plod n.¹ 2). Compare also plonk n.³The explanation as an acronym given in quot. 2000 is probably a later rationalization.

British Police slang (derogatory).

A female police officer.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > woman

police-woman1853

W.P.C.1963

beast1978

plonk1983

1983 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 19 Nov. Women police officers, who make up one-tenth of the force, are widely referred to by the deroratory [sic] term ‘plonks’ by male colleagues.

1989 in R. Graef Talking Blues i. 43 No fucking plonk tells me what to do!

2000 Independent 13 June i. 7/1 The case..is expected to highlight ‘institutional sexism’ in a force where female officers..were routinely referred to as Plonks, or persons with little or no knowledge.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

plonkv.

Brit.

/plɒŋk/, U.S.

/plɑŋk/

Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Imitative. Compare plunk v.¹, plink v., conk v.¹, etc. Compare slightly earlier plonker n.

colloquial.

a. transitive. Originally English regional (northern). To hit or strike (someone or something) with a heavy thud. Also (Military slang): to shell. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > with sound

thump1582

plonk1874

the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object

drepeOE

smitec1200

buffet?c1225

strike1377

rapa1400

seta1400

frontc1400

ballc1450

throw1488

to bear (a person) a blow1530

fetch1556

douse1559

knetcha1564

slat1577

to hit any one a blow1597

wherret1599

alapate1609

shock1614

baske1642

measure1652

plump1785

jow1802

nobble1841

scuff1841

clump1864

bust1873

plonk1874

to sock it to1877

dot1881

biff1888

dong1889

slosh1890

to soak it to1892

to cop (a person) one1898

poke1906

to hang one on1908

bop1931

clonk1949

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > bombard

ding1548

to lay battery to1548

cannon1567

thunder1590

cannonade1637

bombard1686

bomb1694

shell1827

plonk1874

plaster1914

bump1915

labour1915

water1915

barragea1917

paste1942

stonk1944

1874 in T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield (1883) 103 There were three fighting when you plonked Wells in the face.

1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield 102 Plonk, to hit plump. Used especially of marbles, when the one shot strikes the other before touching the ground.

1891 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 3 Jan. 8/6 I'll plonk tha.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 225 Plonk, to shell. Suggested by the sound of the impact and burst.

1941 London Opinion May 64/1 I plonked him good and hearty on the beak.

b. intransitive. To play a musical instrument or piece of music heavily or amateurishly; frequently with away.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > play instrument [verb (intransitive)] > plunk or twiddle

tudel1814

twiddle1863

plonk1891

plink1976

1891 J. W. Riley Old Swimmin'-hole 26 I can plonk and plunk and plink, and tune her up and play.

1927 Melody Maker May 489/2 Can you imagine..a saxophone section playing a nice ligato movement and the banjo plonking away for all he is worth..and killing the good work of the saxes.

1976 D. Heffron Crusty Crossed i. 8 By age three I was plonking away at the piano on my own.

1989 New Yorker 11 Dec. 134/2 Period orchestras..plonked away at accompaniments or sawed through the parts that had been composed for them.

1994 Guitarist Sept. 154/1 It's not just a case of people plonking around on expensive instruments for free.

a. transitive. To set or drop (a thing) in position heavily or clumsily; to put down abruptly or firmly; to seat (a person) hurriedly or unceremoniously. Also in extended use. Cf. plank v. 2b, plunk v.¹ 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > lay or put down > firmly, heavily, or abruptly

slump1836

smack1852

plonk1927

1927 News (Adelaide) 8 Dec. 17/3 He objected to the Government ‘plonking on’ the taxation.

1932 S. Knock Clear Lower Deck xxiii. 175 Come on, me lucky lads; plonk it down: plonk it down, thick and heavy. One must speculate to accumulate.

1959 Sunday Times 17 May 20/4 Jones has been plonked down in Gagland where the jokes are separate from the action.

1967 Spectator 29 Sept. 358/2 A nasty-looking structure will be plonked down in front of King's Cross, thus ruining its two magnificent archways.

1977 Sounds 9 July 10/4 The 150 press-persons present were ushered into a darkened room, plonked on rows of chairs, told to put headphones on and left to listen.

1992 A. Maupin Maybe the Moon xi. 160 I polished off the..margarita and plonked the glass down.

b. intransitive. To drop, sit, or settle down heavily or unceremoniously.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > sit down > heavily or unceremoniously

soss1790

(to sit) flat down1852

dump1891

plonk1932

plotz1941

1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song i. 59 Down it [sc. a bird] plonked on the mere of the loch.

1946 U. Krige Way Out v. 64 Handing them two cigarettes each, I plonked down beside them to tell them the whole story.

1992 New Statesman & Society 4 Dec. 11/1 The Hexham MP Colonel Douglas Clifton-Brown..was still Speaker when I first plonked into my press gallery seat more than 40 years ago.

c. transitive (reflexive). To sit oneself down heavily or unceremoniously. Cf. plank v. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > sit down [verb (reflexive)] > heavily or unceremoniously

plonk1974

1974 Sunday Times 14 July 28/2 He plonked himself down, a volunteer objet-trouvé, and was given a studiously informal treatment.

1992 City Limits 2 July 43/4 There's no more tragic a sight than a bunch of geeky sixth-formers, all wearing the same garment, plonking themselves cross-legged on the floor to a drippy James ‘anthem’.

2007 H. Ellison in O. Penzler Black Lizard Big Bk. of Pulps Introd. 377/2 I actually remember what a hoot it was to plonk myself into the Ouroboros root-nest of the ancient oak tree in the front yard of our little house.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

n.¹int.adv.1903

n.²1927

n.³1941

n.⁴1983

v.1874

单词	plonk
释义	plonkn.¹int.adv. Brit. /plɒŋk/, U.S. /plɑŋk/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: plonk v. Etymology: < plonk v. Compare earlier plonker n., and also plunk n., adv., and int., plink int. and n. colloquial. A. n.¹ (and int.) A dull thudding sound, as of one solid object hitting another; (also) an abrupt, hollow, resonant noise, esp. as that emitted from a musical instrument (cf. plink int.). Also as int. (Also reduplicated.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > non-resonant sound [interjection] > thud thud1880 plonk1903 whump1915 bonk1929 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > thud daud1596 sosh1687 soss1718 devel1787 dump1820 thud1825 duff1859 pob1871 thrump1871 clump1891 plonk1903 plodding1905 plup1911 wumph1913 whump1915 whomp1926 whumping1928 clonking1930 bonk1933 bonking1944 thuck1948 doof1989 1903 P. G. Wodehouse Tales of St. Austin's 9 There was a beautiful, musical plonk, and the ball soared to the very opposite quarter of the field. 1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 15 June 474/1 A patois that sounds like the plonk-plonk of ping-pong balls on a hard table. 1943 H. Pearson Conan Doyle iii. 46 ‘Plonk’ went the gun [sc. an airgun], and down went the medal. 1960 Oxf. Mag. 28 Apr. 248 (advt.) The satisfying plonk of The Observer falling on the doormat. 1992 K. S. Robinson Red Mars (1993) v. 343 The magnesium-drum band picked them up into its staccato flurry of plinks and plonks. 1999 Guardian (Nexis) 19 July 16 Ping! ‘Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Air India regrets the delay to flight 747 to Rome and London, which is due to the unfortunate demise of one of our passengers.’ Ping! Plonk-plonk. B. adv. With, or as with, a plonk; directly, squarely; abruptly. (Also reduplicated.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adverb] > non-resonant impact sound > thud soss1761 flump1790 thud1880 thuddingly1904 plonk1914 1914 Picture Fun 26 Dec. 2 He unfortunately pinched it just as the waiter was passing with a tray of ices, and plonk came that kangaroo's hind paws,..bang agin the old chap's tummy! 1920 Punch 10 Mar. 199/2 A befogged Zeppelin laid a couple of bombs plonk into the homestead. 1978 M. Birmingham Sleep in Ditch 118 I feel as if I'd thrown off an enormous weight. I hope it hasn't landed plonk on you. 2000 Times (Nexis) 19 Oct. (Features section) Music that often went tum-tum, lyrics that regularly went plonk-plonk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). plonkn.² Brit. /plɒŋk/, U.S. /plɑŋk/, Australian English /plɔŋk/ Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: English blanc , vin blanc n. Etymology: Probably representing a colloquial or humorous pronunciation of blanc (in vin blanc n.: compare discussion at that entry), probably after plonk n.¹Compare slightly earlier plinketty plonk (compare plinkety n.):1930 H. Williamson Patriot's Progress iv. 137 Nosey and Nobby shared a bottle of plinketty plonk, as vin blanc was called. Various popular etymologies have been suggested for this word (compare e.g. quot. 1967), but they do not appear to be supported by the evidence. colloquial (originally Australian). Cheap wine of inferior quality. Also, more generally: wine or alcohol of any kind. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [noun] > cheap or inferior wine drum-winea1640 red ink1849 Gladstone (claret)1864 pinkie1897 dago red1906 pinard1917 ink1918 plonk1927 grocer's Graves1931 grocer's wine1931 nelly1941 Red Ned1941 vaaljapie1945 purple death1947 grocer's sherry1958 papsak2004 1927 News (Adelaide) 8 Dec. 17/3 ‘Give us a definition of “plonk”?’ asked Mr. McMillan... ‘It is a cheap wine produced in Mr. Crosby's district.’ Loud laughter greeted the sally. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Jan. 12 The man who drinks illicit brews or ‘plonk’..by the quart does it in quiet spots or at home. 1938 H. Drake-Brockman Men without Wives (1951) 77 What cow'd be such a dope as t' waste a perishin' thirst like we got, on plonk? It's beer we want. 1967 Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 21/8 Surely the word ‘plonk’ is onomatopoeic, being the noise made when a cork is withdrawn from the bottle? 1976 Scotsman 24 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) 3/6 The author is particularly scathing about Sainsbury's Spanish plonk. 1992 Sun 16 Sept. 17/4 Pit leader Arthur Scargill's home town is to market its own plonk—with a picture of a miner on the label. 2015 T. Pinch in A. B. Antal et al. Moments of Valuation ii. 17 Anymore than cheap plonk can easily be made to taste like a top bottle of Latour Burgundy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). plonkn.³ Brit. /plɒŋk/, U.S. /plɑŋk/ Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps compare plonk n.¹, plonker n.; perhaps compare also quot. 1943¹. R.A.F. slang. In full A.C. Plonk. An aircraftman of the lowest rank. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > aircraftman or woman aircraftman1919 AC1928 erk1928 aircraftwoman1939 plonk1941 ACW1942 1941 New Statesman 30 Aug. 218/3 A.C. Plonk—Lowest in the R.A.F., aircraftman 2nd class. 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 10 A/C Plonk, aircraftman 2nd class. In 1914–1918 ‘plonk’ was Flanders slang for ‘mud’. Hence, an A/C Plonk is an aircraftman literally in the mud or at the bottom—that is, lowest classification of the lowest rank in the R.A.F. 1943 J. S. Childers War Eagles 259 (Gloss.) Plonk, recruit. 1949 J. R. Cole It was so Late 61 I was only an A.C. plonk at the time. 2004 Lincolnshire Echo (Nexis) 25 Nov. (Nostalgia section) 25 Service veterans tell of working class lads who reached heights during the war but who were completely useless in peace and the A/c Plonk who gave the officer a job in Civvy Street. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). plonkn.⁴ Brit. /plɒŋk/, U.S. /plɑŋk/ Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: plonker n. Etymology: Probably shortened < plonker n. (see T. Thorne Dict. Contemp. Slang (rev. ed., 1997) 300/2), perhaps arising from its specific sense ‘foot’, recorded in P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8, 1984) at Plonkers as in use since c1920 in London and ‘esp. among policemen’; compare plod n.¹ 2). Compare also plonk n.³The explanation as an acronym given in quot. 2000 is probably a later rationalization. British Police slang (derogatory). A female police officer. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > woman police-woman1853 W.P.C.1963 beast1978 plonk1983 1983 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 19 Nov. Women police officers, who make up one-tenth of the force, are widely referred to by the deroratory [sic] term ‘plonks’ by male colleagues. 1989 in R. Graef Talking Blues i. 43 No fucking plonk tells me what to do! 2000 Independent 13 June i. 7/1 The case..is expected to highlight ‘institutional sexism’ in a force where female officers..were routinely referred to as Plonks, or persons with little or no knowledge. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). plonkv. Brit. /plɒŋk/, U.S. /plɑŋk/ Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative. Compare plunk v.¹, plink v., conk v.¹, etc. Compare slightly earlier plonker n. colloquial. 1. a. transitive. Originally English regional (northern). To hit or strike (someone or something) with a heavy thud. Also (Military slang): to shell. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > with sound thump1582 plonk1874 the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object drepeOE smitec1200 buffet?c1225 strike1377 rapa1400 seta1400 frontc1400 ballc1450 throw1488 to bear (a person) a blow1530 fetch1556 douse1559 knetcha1564 slat1577 to hit any one a blow1597 wherret1599 alapate1609 shock1614 baske1642 measure1652 plump1785 jow1802 nobble1841 scuff1841 clump1864 bust1873 plonk1874 to sock it to1877 dot1881 biff1888 dong1889 slosh1890 to soak it to1892 to cop (a person) one1898 poke1906 to hang one on1908 bop1931 clonk1949 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > bombard ding1548 to lay battery to1548 cannon1567 thunder1590 cannonade1637 bombard1686 bomb1694 shell1827 plonk1874 plaster1914 bump1915 labour1915 water1915 barragea1917 paste1942 stonk1944 1874 in T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield (1883) 103 There were three fighting when you plonked Wells in the face. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield 102 Plonk, to hit plump. Used especially of marbles, when the one shot strikes the other before touching the ground. 1891 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 3 Jan. 8/6 I'll plonk tha. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 225 Plonk, to shell. Suggested by the sound of the impact and burst. 1941 London Opinion May 64/1 I plonked him good and hearty on the beak. b. intransitive. To play a musical instrument or piece of music heavily or amateurishly; frequently with away. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > play instrument [verb (intransitive)] > plunk or twiddle tudel1814 twiddle1863 plonk1891 plink1976 1891 J. W. Riley Old Swimmin'-hole 26 I can plonk and plunk and plink, and tune her up and play. 1927 Melody Maker May 489/2 Can you imagine..a saxophone section playing a nice ligato movement and the banjo plonking away for all he is worth..and killing the good work of the saxes. 1976 D. Heffron Crusty Crossed i. 8 By age three I was plonking away at the piano on my own. 1989 New Yorker 11 Dec. 134/2 Period orchestras..plonked away at accompaniments or sawed through the parts that had been composed for them. 1994 Guitarist Sept. 154/1 It's not just a case of people plonking around on expensive instruments for free. 2. a. transitive. To set or drop (a thing) in position heavily or clumsily; to put down abruptly or firmly; to seat (a person) hurriedly or unceremoniously. Also in extended use. Cf. plank v. 2b, plunk v.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > lay or put down > firmly, heavily, or abruptly slump1836 smack1852 plonk1927 1927 News (Adelaide) 8 Dec. 17/3 He objected to the Government ‘plonking on’ the taxation. 1932 S. Knock Clear Lower Deck xxiii. 175 Come on, me lucky lads; plonk it down: plonk it down, thick and heavy. One must speculate to accumulate. 1959 Sunday Times 17 May 20/4 Jones has been plonked down in Gagland where the jokes are separate from the action. 1967 Spectator 29 Sept. 358/2 A nasty-looking structure will be plonked down in front of King's Cross, thus ruining its two magnificent archways. 1977 Sounds 9 July 10/4 The 150 press-persons present were ushered into a darkened room, plonked on rows of chairs, told to put headphones on and left to listen. 1992 A. Maupin Maybe the Moon xi. 160 I polished off the..margarita and plonked the glass down. b. intransitive. To drop, sit, or settle down heavily or unceremoniously. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > sit down > heavily or unceremoniously soss1790 (to sit) flat down1852 dump1891 plonk1932 plotz1941 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song i. 59 Down it [sc. a bird] plonked on the mere of the loch. 1946 U. Krige Way Out v. 64 Handing them two cigarettes each, I plonked down beside them to tell them the whole story. 1992 New Statesman & Society 4 Dec. 11/1 The Hexham MP Colonel Douglas Clifton-Brown..was still Speaker when I first plonked into my press gallery seat more than 40 years ago. c. transitive (reflexive). To sit oneself down heavily or unceremoniously. Cf. plank v. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > sit down [verb (reflexive)] > heavily or unceremoniously plonk1974 1974 Sunday Times 14 July 28/2 He plonked himself down, a volunteer objet-trouvé, and was given a studiously informal treatment. 1992 City Limits 2 July 43/4 There's no more tragic a sight than a bunch of geeky sixth-formers, all wearing the same garment, plonking themselves cross-legged on the floor to a drippy James ‘anthem’. 2007 H. Ellison in O. Penzler Black Lizard Big Bk. of Pulps Introd. 377/2 I actually remember what a hoot it was to plonk myself into the Ouroboros root-nest of the ancient oak tree in the front yard of our little house. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹int.adv.1903n.²1927n.³1941n.⁴1983v.1874
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