plonk

Meanings

Interjection

• The sound made by something solid landing.
• The supposed sound of adding a user to one's killfile.

Noun

• The sound of something solid landing.
• Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
• AC Plonk
• A female police constable.

Verb

• To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
• To sit down heavily and without ceremony.
• To automatically ignore a particular poster.

Adverb

• Precisely and forcefully.

Related

Similar words

• bang
• slap bang

Origin

• Onomatopoeic
• From WWI military slang, derived by alteration of French vin blanc 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.
• Probably a shortening of plonker.