plonk

[plongk] /plɒŋk/
noun, Chiefly British
1.
inferior or cheap wine.
Origin
1925-30; perhaps alteration of French (vin) blanc white (wine)
Examples from the web for plonk
  • Truthfully, the vast majority of cachaça is industrial plonk.
  • Apple's peculiar sect of consumers are quick to plonk down large amounts of money for anything that carries the company's logo.
  • Your correspondent will be among the first to plonk down his cash the moment diesel versions of family runabouts arrive.
  • By the way, you yourself rarely provide links on your plonk page so that readers can judge for themselves.
  • Their paper served to yank dreaming from the realms of the psychological and plonk it in a dreary, physiological bucket.
  • Wake to the plonk, plonk, plank of dewdrops hitting the lower wing of a biplane.
British Dictionary definitions for plonk

plonk1

/plɒŋk/
verb
1.
(often foll by down) to drop or be dropped, esp heavily or suddenly: he plonked the money on the table
noun
2.
the act or sound of plonking
interjection
3.
an exclamation imitative of this sound

plonk2

/plɒŋk/
noun
1.
(Brit & Austral, NZ, informal) alcoholic drink, usually wine, esp of inferior quality
Word Origin
C20: perhaps from French blanc white, as in vin blanc white wine
Word Origin and History for plonk
v.

1874, imitative. From 1903 as a noun. Related: Plonked; plonking.

Slang definitions & phrases for plonk

plonk

noun
  1. Inferior wine; cheap wine: It's a humble plonk, but you'll like it (British fr Australian 1930+)
  2. A boring and obnoxious person; pill (1960s+)

[wine sense fr French vin blanc, ''white wine''; second sense perhaps fr the dull sound plonk]


plonk in Technology
networking, abuse
(Possibly influenced by British slang "plonk" for cheap booze, or "plonker" for someone behaving stupidly; usually written "*plonk*") The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. While this term originated in the Usenet newsgroup news:talk.bizarre, by 1994 it was widespread on Usenet and mailing lists as a form of public ridicule.
Another theory is that it is an acronym for "Person with Little Or No Knowledge".
(2002-01-18)