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plonky

adj

Etymology

From plonk + -y.

Definitions

  1. cheap and inferior

  2. Having an unappealing thudding sound.

    • They both possess a light, slightly nasal voice, but whereas Siffre has his excellent guitar work to back up his vocals, O'Sullivan only has that same old plonky piano and his arranger.
    • Clement Ishmael's plodding arrangements for lone, plonky piano, and the unlovely voices of two-thirds of the cast, do not help: even a sublimely sexy song like You Can Leave Your Hat On is rendered flat and toneless.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA