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verb plɒŋkplɑŋk British informal 1with object and adverbial of place Set down heavily or carelessly. she plonked her glass on the table Example sentencesExamples - He plonks a small, beautifully-made mechanical instrument on the desk in front of me.
- He plonks his boots next to him, I make the mistake of moving them to sit down, and he quickly retrieves them from the ground.
- When we meet he plonks his keys on the table and there is a picture of a little girl on his key-ring.
- He takes the glass from me, plonking it down on his desk - a little too hard, if you ask me.
- They have just spent £60,000 of public money, plonking speed bumps and concrete chicanes on a country road where accidents were rare and dangerous speeding was nearly impossible.
- ‘We have some left over bacon’ Henrietta said and she carelessly plonked the strips of meat into the same frying pan as the eggs.
- They waved us to empty chairs, plonking cups filled with coffee as thick as treacle in front of us - and, completely unperturbed, carried on raising the roof.
- We plonked the stone down where it was to live, stood back, looked at one another, nodded, and the decision was made.
- The skinhead came up to me with a grin, plonking his pint on my table, and asking how I was.
- Then he asked me to try some, but I didn't wish to as I had tried his wife's pork but he plonked some on my plate anyway.
- The hairdresser plonked me down in her spinning salon chair, took a handful of my hair and exclaimed gleefully,
- The one-to-one dialogue gives children the chance to practise speech, something not achieved by plonking them in front of a television set.
- I plonked my case on the conveyor belt and stood back as they watched the contents appear on the little monitor.
- I ordered the meal with the funniest name, but then realised this was a mistake when the waiter plonked a plate consisting of nothing but vegetables, squid and pheasant eggs in front of me.
- Then he plonked the teapot in the middle of the table.
- Brenda plonks two packets of dried prunes and a scotchbrite on the counter.
- An investigation is under way after a new speed camera was plonked right in front of a recently erected warning sign for a dangerous Coppull bridge - partially obscuring it.
- ‘I've discovered Night Nurse,’ he announced cheerfully, plonking the bottle on the side table.
- I pulled the samples out, plonked them on the table and started talking about them, looking round the room and catching people's eyes as I was talking.
- He yanked a chair out from under the table, plonking his keys and other paraphernalia down.
Synonyms put, place, put down, lay, lay down, deposit, position, settle, station - 1.1plonk oneself Sit down heavily and without ceremony.
he plonked himself down on the sofa Example sentencesExamples - ‘Hey,’ he said cheerfully and made his way to the couch, and plonked himself down heavily.
- He was limping a little, didn't seem to like standing on it, and just kept plonking himself down on the ground.
- Adele gasped, looking up to see Wes plonking himself in a seat beside her.
- I found a clean bit and plonked myself down and started to admire the view.
- As I plonked myself down in my seat with my popcorn and my candy floss, cursing the child next to me who had managed to tread on my ingrown toenail and was now causing a ruckus, I knew exactly what to expect.
- Indeed, as we were finishing our meal at around 10.30 pm, two couples wandered in, plonked themselves down at the bar and ordered a drink and a snack each.
- To his luck, he found a window seat and plonked himself down on it.
- Had we stayed at home I'd have plonked myself in front of the TV and watched the ceremonies and the pageantry being played out in London.
- The person who plonks himself down next to me is someway into his forties, with disappearing hair and one of those faces that has experienced a great deal.
- I'm not sure if I was meant to pay but I ‘slipped’ in through the back door dragging my far-too-heavy case and plonked myself down… have a feeling that was not the thing to do but I was gonna claim ignorance being a Brit in a strange country!
- The cane chairs may turn out to be a little rickety and you may have to guard against someone plonking themselves on your delicate low seat, for it could collapse along with them.
- He hastily boarded the bus and found the nearest vacant seat, flinging his bag on the window seat and plonking himself on the aisle seat, his favourite spot on the whole bus.
- Yesterday on my arrival home from work, tired, grubby and not in the best of humour I plonked myself down in front of the pc, coffee and cigarette in hand, to check my mail before I set about any chores that needed attending too.
- There I plonked myself back in the seat I was in before, desperately trying to recall every exact detail of recent past events.
- Their son goes to the cinema picks a row where there are three empty seats and plonks himself down in the middle one.
- She walks over and plonks herself beside David
- I cried, plonking myself down in the chair beside her.
- I introduce myself to the lady now seated on the other side of my computer, who plonks herself down on the table next to me and pouts.
- Happy to find the entire field and stands empty, she plonked herself on the bottom seat and let out a heavy sigh.
- So we trooped back to the farm where the entire extended family had plonked themselves in the kitchen and were devouring all the leftovers.
Synonyms take a seat, seat oneself, settle down, be seated, take a chair
2no object Play unskilfully on a musical instrument. people plonking around on expensive instruments Example sentencesExamples - There's a medley, plonked out on a Hammond organ.
- It shall be like one of those period dramas, with guests conversing politely in the drawing room whilst Kate plonks away in the next room.
- The opening is one piano note, plonked slowly, deliberately after the other.
noun plɒŋkplɑŋk British informal A sound as of something being set down heavily. Example sentencesExamples - For instance, I agree entirely with his description of the music as ‘two plinks, a plonk, and a grrr!’
- I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes.
- The weakest element is the soundtrack - rhythmic rattles and plops, clonks, clicks and plonks, with vague background song - rather a letdown.
Synonyms put down, set down, place down, deposit, drop, station, leave, rest
Origin Late 19th century (originally dialect): imitative; compare with plunk. There are two different plonks. One, as in ‘to plonk something down’, was originally a northern English word meaning ‘to hit or strike with a heavy thud’, and probably comes from the sound. The other plonk [1930s], describing cheap wine, started out in Australia. It is probably humorous form of blanc in the French phrase vin blanc ‘white wine’, though some suggest that it might be meant to imitate the sound of a cork being taken out of a bottle. Plonker, meaning ‘an idiot’, dates from the 1960s but was popularized by the 1980s BBC television sitcom Only Fools and Horses. It is based on the first plonk and was first used to mean ‘something large or substantial’ and also ‘penis’.
Rhymes bonk, clonk, conk, cronk, honk, Leblanc, pétanque, tronc, zonk noun plɒŋkplɑŋk mass nounBritish informal Cheap wine of inferior quality. we turned up at 8 p.m., each clutching a bottle of plonk Example sentencesExamples - I haven't even succeeded in my most basic quest which is to find an everyday red plonk that I won't get bored with by the second glass.
- If memory serves, main courses were about £9.00 a time, and bottles of decent plonk from their limited wine list were about £12.00.
- It used to be a Saturday night thing, go down to his place, make some pasta and get smashed on cheap plonk.
- Tomorrow morning, there will be some excruciating hangovers in our party, produced by a relatively small amount of plonk.
- Although still associated in the minds of most wine drinkers with cheap, fizzy plonk, perfectly decent restaurants are daring to add aluminium-capped bottles to their cellars.
- There is always someone around to pick you up. ‘If Eliza keeps swilling the plonk like that, she had better hope so.’
- My advice is to get a few bottles of plonk at the off-licence and get down to Ethas Kitchen, only a five minute drive away - a place that oozes ambience and offers quality dishes in a very unpretentious surrounding.
- He doesn't mind drinking plonk, but says that ‘like a lot of people in their forties, I'd rather have one really good bottle than 20 bottles of bad stuff’.
- The Calgary restaurant wine scene has come a long way since a barrage of steak houses pushed gallons of cheap plonk down our throats via the infamous half-litre carafe.
- Having eaten in nearby restaurants, this is a great place to let your food settle with a bottle of reasonably priced plonk.
- Wine now accounts for almost a quarter of alcohol sales, with Australian plonk accounting for six of the top ten wine brands sold in Britain.
- Would you decant a £2.99 bottle of plonk into an empty bottle of Beaune Pinot-Noir to impress your guests?
- Then it jumped, and Kate screamed again, and Mike did drop the plonk, which began to spread across the floor like a blood stain.
- Ever wondered how you can test your taste buds' ability to tell the difference between cheap plonk and fine wines?
- We got a call two nights ago, at about 10 or 11 pm, just as we were planning to get really shloshed on a few bottles of cheap plonk.
- Meeting the maker, tasting the plonk, and hopefully coming back for more.
- Spanish wine, which was higher in alcohol than other wines, was regarded mainly as cheaper heady plonk, and better, more expensive, wines were often cut with it.
- Later when he moved up to Chiswick, it was much the same sort of evening, but the plonk got better.
- Jilly comes back into the room and tops up the plonk.
- And they have to wash the whole thing down with a pint of lager or some cheap and plentiful plonk.
Origin 1930s (originally Australian): probably an alteration of blanc in French vin blanc 'white wine'. verbplɑŋkpläNGk informal 1with object and adverbial of place Set down heavily or carelessly. she plonked her glass on the table Example sentencesExamples - Then he asked me to try some, but I didn't wish to as I had tried his wife's pork but he plonked some on my plate anyway.
- I pulled the samples out, plonked them on the table and started talking about them, looking round the room and catching people's eyes as I was talking.
- He yanked a chair out from under the table, plonking his keys and other paraphernalia down.
- He takes the glass from me, plonking it down on his desk - a little too hard, if you ask me.
- Brenda plonks two packets of dried prunes and a scotchbrite on the counter.
- He plonks a small, beautifully-made mechanical instrument on the desk in front of me.
- The skinhead came up to me with a grin, plonking his pint on my table, and asking how I was.
- When we meet he plonks his keys on the table and there is a picture of a little girl on his key-ring.
- ‘We have some left over bacon’ Henrietta said and she carelessly plonked the strips of meat into the same frying pan as the eggs.
- The one-to-one dialogue gives children the chance to practise speech, something not achieved by plonking them in front of a television set.
- I ordered the meal with the funniest name, but then realised this was a mistake when the waiter plonked a plate consisting of nothing but vegetables, squid and pheasant eggs in front of me.
- He plonks his boots next to him, I make the mistake of moving them to sit down, and he quickly retrieves them from the ground.
- They waved us to empty chairs, plonking cups filled with coffee as thick as treacle in front of us - and, completely unperturbed, carried on raising the roof.
- Then he plonked the teapot in the middle of the table.
- ‘I've discovered Night Nurse,’ he announced cheerfully, plonking the bottle on the side table.
- The hairdresser plonked me down in her spinning salon chair, took a handful of my hair and exclaimed gleefully,
- I plonked my case on the conveyor belt and stood back as they watched the contents appear on the little monitor.
- We plonked the stone down where it was to live, stood back, looked at one another, nodded, and the decision was made.
- They have just spent £60,000 of public money, plonking speed bumps and concrete chicanes on a country road where accidents were rare and dangerous speeding was nearly impossible.
- An investigation is under way after a new speed camera was plonked right in front of a recently erected warning sign for a dangerous Coppull bridge - partially obscuring it.
Synonyms put, place, put down, lay, lay down, deposit, position, settle, station - 1.1plonk oneself Sit down heavily and without ceremony.
he plonked himself down on the sofa Example sentencesExamples - I'm not sure if I was meant to pay but I ‘slipped’ in through the back door dragging my far-too-heavy case and plonked myself down… have a feeling that was not the thing to do but I was gonna claim ignorance being a Brit in a strange country!
- As I plonked myself down in my seat with my popcorn and my candy floss, cursing the child next to me who had managed to tread on my ingrown toenail and was now causing a ruckus, I knew exactly what to expect.
- ‘Hey,’ he said cheerfully and made his way to the couch, and plonked himself down heavily.
- Had we stayed at home I'd have plonked myself in front of the TV and watched the ceremonies and the pageantry being played out in London.
- So we trooped back to the farm where the entire extended family had plonked themselves in the kitchen and were devouring all the leftovers.
- Adele gasped, looking up to see Wes plonking himself in a seat beside her.
- Yesterday on my arrival home from work, tired, grubby and not in the best of humour I plonked myself down in front of the pc, coffee and cigarette in hand, to check my mail before I set about any chores that needed attending too.
- He hastily boarded the bus and found the nearest vacant seat, flinging his bag on the window seat and plonking himself on the aisle seat, his favourite spot on the whole bus.
- The cane chairs may turn out to be a little rickety and you may have to guard against someone plonking themselves on your delicate low seat, for it could collapse along with them.
- Their son goes to the cinema picks a row where there are three empty seats and plonks himself down in the middle one.
- I introduce myself to the lady now seated on the other side of my computer, who plonks herself down on the table next to me and pouts.
- She walks over and plonks herself beside David
- I found a clean bit and plonked myself down and started to admire the view.
- To his luck, he found a window seat and plonked himself down on it.
- Happy to find the entire field and stands empty, she plonked herself on the bottom seat and let out a heavy sigh.
- Indeed, as we were finishing our meal at around 10.30 pm, two couples wandered in, plonked themselves down at the bar and ordered a drink and a snack each.
- I cried, plonking myself down in the chair beside her.
- The person who plonks himself down next to me is someway into his forties, with disappearing hair and one of those faces that has experienced a great deal.
- There I plonked myself back in the seat I was in before, desperately trying to recall every exact detail of recent past events.
- He was limping a little, didn't seem to like standing on it, and just kept plonking himself down on the ground.
Synonyms take a seat, seat oneself, settle down, be seated, take a chair
2no object Play on a musical instrument laboriously or unskillfully. people plonking around on expensive instruments Example sentencesExamples - The opening is one piano note, plonked slowly, deliberately after the other.
- There's a medley, plonked out on a Hammond organ.
- It shall be like one of those period dramas, with guests conversing politely in the drawing room whilst Kate plonks away in the next room.
nounplɑŋkpläNGk informal A sound as of something being set down heavily. Example sentencesExamples - I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes.
- The weakest element is the soundtrack - rhythmic rattles and plops, clonks, clicks and plonks, with vague background song - rather a letdown.
- For instance, I agree entirely with his description of the music as ‘two plinks, a plonk, and a grrr!’
Synonyms put down, set down, place down, deposit, drop, station, leave, rest
Origin Late 19th century (originally dialect): imitative; compare with plunk. nounpläNGkplɑŋk British informal Cheap wine of inferior quality. we turned up at 8 p.m., each clutching a bottle of plonk Example sentencesExamples - Would you decant a £2.99 bottle of plonk into an empty bottle of Beaune Pinot-Noir to impress your guests?
- If memory serves, main courses were about £9.00 a time, and bottles of decent plonk from their limited wine list were about £12.00.
- Although still associated in the minds of most wine drinkers with cheap, fizzy plonk, perfectly decent restaurants are daring to add aluminium-capped bottles to their cellars.
- My advice is to get a few bottles of plonk at the off-licence and get down to Ethas Kitchen, only a five minute drive away - a place that oozes ambience and offers quality dishes in a very unpretentious surrounding.
- Having eaten in nearby restaurants, this is a great place to let your food settle with a bottle of reasonably priced plonk.
- We got a call two nights ago, at about 10 or 11 pm, just as we were planning to get really shloshed on a few bottles of cheap plonk.
- He doesn't mind drinking plonk, but says that ‘like a lot of people in their forties, I'd rather have one really good bottle than 20 bottles of bad stuff’.
- Later when he moved up to Chiswick, it was much the same sort of evening, but the plonk got better.
- Spanish wine, which was higher in alcohol than other wines, was regarded mainly as cheaper heady plonk, and better, more expensive, wines were often cut with it.
- Wine now accounts for almost a quarter of alcohol sales, with Australian plonk accounting for six of the top ten wine brands sold in Britain.
- And they have to wash the whole thing down with a pint of lager or some cheap and plentiful plonk.
- Ever wondered how you can test your taste buds' ability to tell the difference between cheap plonk and fine wines?
- Tomorrow morning, there will be some excruciating hangovers in our party, produced by a relatively small amount of plonk.
- There is always someone around to pick you up. ‘If Eliza keeps swilling the plonk like that, she had better hope so.’
- Jilly comes back into the room and tops up the plonk.
- Meeting the maker, tasting the plonk, and hopefully coming back for more.
- The Calgary restaurant wine scene has come a long way since a barrage of steak houses pushed gallons of cheap plonk down our throats via the infamous half-litre carafe.
- It used to be a Saturday night thing, go down to his place, make some pasta and get smashed on cheap plonk.
- Then it jumped, and Kate screamed again, and Mike did drop the plonk, which began to spread across the floor like a blood stain.
- I haven't even succeeded in my most basic quest which is to find an everyday red plonk that I won't get bored with by the second glass.
Origin 1930s (originally Australian): probably an alteration of blanc in French vin blanc ‘white wine’. |