plunkern.
/ˈplʌŋkə/, U.S. /ˈpləŋkər/ Chiefly colloquial.
1. Originally and chiefly Scottish. A type of large marble.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > marble > types of
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1863 J. Young Lays from Ingle Nook 83 A plunker frae auntie, frae cousin a snap.
1894 A. S. Robertson Provost o' Glendookie 33 He drew forth a large marble and said exultingly, ‘Ye haena a plunker like that.’
1929 W. D. Cocker Dandie 37 The hailstanes like plunkers cam' stot.
1991 A. Blair More Tea at Miss Cranston's v. 57 We'd all plunkers to flick at the marbles in a circle, a kind of kitty of them you'd to knock out for keepers.
2. U.S. slang. A dollar. Cf. plunk n. 1b. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a dollar
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1890 Chicago Tribune 5 Jan. 6/3 There's the worst and at the same time the funniest piece of counterfeiting I have struck... A customer of ours..actually took that in for ten good round plunkers.
1902 J. D. Corrothers Black Cat Club 43 You gits nine plunkers a week.
1934 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 9 July 6/6 (advt.) What tickles me is I saved three plunkers.
3. A player of a musical instrument. Frequently with modifier denoting the instrument played.Sometimes with unfavourable connotation: an amateurish or unsophisticated performer.
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1898 North Adams (Mass.) Evening Transcript 7 Apr. 7/7 In a large ship's company there are always banjo plunkers and guitar and mandolin thrummers innumerable up ‘forward’.
1913 Chicago Tribune 21 Aug. 6/5 I've never been a funker, boys, Though my game was far from hot; So let no banjo-plunker, boys, Commiserate my lot.
1943 S. A. Brown et al. Negro Caravan iii. 281 The gay abandon of cabarets, the weary blues of a wandering piano plunker.
1991 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 19 Apr. (Friday section) Some of Nashville's premier pickers, plunkers and bow pushers.
4. Angling (originally and chiefly U.S.).
a. A casual angler; an angler who fishes with live bait. Sometimes depreciative.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > angler > others
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1926 Chicago Tribune 10 May 22/4 Although the ‘plunker’, or worm fishermen, were as a rule able to decorate their creels with fish, conditions have been anything but ideal for fly fishing.
1956 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 11 Mar. 9/1 The Snohomish has been kind to plunkers, especially in the holes just below the forks.
1991 West Austral. (Perth) 8 July 21/2 If ever there was a potato too hot to hold it's the one to do with licences for recreational anglers, particularly we saltwater plunkers.
2004 T. Stienstra Calif. Fishing (ed. 7) i. 80/1 These plunkers will often just sit in their trucks and watch their rods while it rains.
b. A type of artificial lure that makes a sound when moved along the surface of the water. Cf. popper n. 8.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > lure with one or more hooks
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plunker1930
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1930 Van Wert (Ohio) Daily Bull. 12 June 7/4 (advt.) Creek chub baits. Plunkers, all colors..75c.
1947 E. Lloyd King Golden Propellers in Limestone Legends (1997) 132 That guy's plunker ain't got much action, has it?
1998 A. B. Lander Fishing Guide to Kentucky's Major Lakes (ed. 2) 138 Small crankbaits, spinners, and plunker and fly rigs are top lures for casting the jumps.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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