Search Result for "plonk":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. a cheap wine of inferior quality;
2. the noise of something dropping (as into liquid);
VERB (1)
1. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise;
- Example: "He planked the money on the table"
- Example: "He planked himself into the sofa"
[syn: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump]
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003):
plonk excl.,vt. [Usenet: possibly influenced by British slang `plonk' for cheap booze, or `plonker' for someone behaving stupidly (latter is lit. equivalent to Yiddish schmuck)] The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. While it originated in the newsgroup talk.bizarre, this term (usually written "*plonk*") is now (1994) widespread on Usenet as a form of public ridicule.V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006):
PLONK Please Leave Our Newsgroup, Kid (Usenet, slang)
