plonk
/plɑŋk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.15 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To sit down heavily and without ceremony.
adv
Precisely and forcefully.
Example Sentences
- "I just heard a plonk – did something fall down in the kitchen?"
- "When you’ve finished with the sponge, just plonk it back in the sink."
- "We sat alfresco on the edge of a “square,” in reality a pond of cobbly mud with a plinth plonked in its navel […]"
- "Catrin: You just plonk a white coat on – and you think that’s enough? ¶ For Halloween? ¶ In the Big End? ¶ You fuckin’ disgust me…"
- "Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up."
- "Changing trains at Hereford, I catch the West Midlands Class 170 that is waiting for me at Platform 1. Plonking myself in a table bay, I settle in to enjoy the trip on what is another quiet train - well, until Ledbury, where a couple of dozen people are waiting."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /plɑŋk/
- British English: /plɒŋk/