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English word origin

Etymology of plonk

Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.

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Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗
noun

The sound of something solid landing.

verb

To set or toss (something) down carelessly. · To sit down heavily and without ceremony. · To automatically ignore or block a particular poster.

adv

Precisely and forcefully.

intj

The sound made by something solid landing. · The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.

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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗
noun

Cheap or inferior everyday wine. · AC Plonk

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From WWI military slang, derived by alteration of French vin blanc (“white wine”). Recorded earliest in the playful rhyming slang form plinketty-plonk. Possibly influenced by the sound of wine being poured into a glass.

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Source etymology 3

Original entry ↗
noun

A female police constable.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Probably a shortening of plonker.

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