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plonk

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5 lettersPronunciation /plɒŋk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted klnopStarts with PEnds with K0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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 […]

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