plonk
intjEtymology
From WWI military slang, derived by alteration of French vin blanc (“white wine”) by the law of Hobson-Jobson. Recorded earliest in the playful rhyming slang form plinketty-plonk. Possibly influenced by the sound of wine being poured into a glass.
Definitions
The sound made by something solid landing.
The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.
The sound of something solid landing.
- I just heard a plonk – did something fall down in the kitchen?
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To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
- 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 […]
To sit down heavily and without ceremony.
To automatically ignore a particular poster.
- I got tired of his trolling and ad hominem attacks, so I plonked him.
Precisely and forcefully.
- He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table.
Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
AC Plonk
A female police constable.
- Chris and that plonk had better be flushing the scum out.
A solution stack consisting of Prometheus (metrics and time-series), Linkerd (service…
A solution stack consisting of Prometheus (metrics and time-series), Linkerd (service mesh), OpenFaaS (management and auto-scaling of compute), NATS (asynchronous message bus/queue), and Kubernetes (declarative, extensible, scale-out, self-healing clustering).
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for plonk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA