plupint.n.
/plʌp/, U.S. /pləp/ A. int.
Representing a soft splashing or popping sound. (Frequently reduplicated.)
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1850 Lancet 2 Mar. 279/2 When the apparatus acts well, there is no sound whatever heard, save that of the double sound, resembling the word ‘plup-plup’.
1888 I. Alden Bobby's Wolf 30 Hour after hour it [sc. the pot] boiled..seeming to say, ‘Plup, plup, plup, plup’.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 163 Give us that brisket off the hook. Plup. Rawhead and bloody bones.
2000 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 23 Aug. (Food section) 2 g The fruit, as it was cooking, sort of went ‘plup plup’.
B. n.
A soft splashing or popping sound. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > thud
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1911 R. Brooke Let. in E. Marsh Rupert Brooke (1918) p. lxvii The ‘quaint’ remarks fall all round one during meal times, with little soft plups like pats of butter.
1926 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 847/1 The surge of the water down below, and the plup of ‘escape’ above the roof, were but soft sounds.
1998 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 5 Nov. 16 The ritual fires were lit and the darkness was suddenly loud and alive with bangs and the ‘plups’ of bursting rockets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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