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▪ I. plonk, v. dial. and colloq.|plɒŋk|
[Imit.: cf. plunk v.]
1. a. trans. To hit or strike with a plonk. Chiefly dial.
1874in A. Easther Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield (1883) 103 There were three fighting when you plonked Wells in the face. 1883A. Easther Ibid. 102 Plonk, to hit plump. Used especially of marbles, when the one shot strikes the other before touching the ground. 1891Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 3 Jan. 8/6 I'll plonk tha. 1896Ibid. 21 Mar. 3/8 Plenk him one o' t'noase if he doesn't shut up. 1903in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 549/2 I'll plonk tha, if I get hod on tha. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 225 Plonk, to shell. Suggested by the sound of the impact and burst. 1941London Opinion May 64/1, I plonked him good and hearty on the beak.
b. intr. To emit or cause something to emit an abrupt vibratory sound, spec. in playing a musical instrument. Freq. with away.
1927Melody Maker May 489/2 Can you imagine..a saxophone section playing a nice ligato movement and the banjo plonking away for all he is worth..and killing the good work of the saxes. 1976D. Heffron Crusty Crossed i. 8 By age three I was plonking away at the piano on my own. 1979Stand XX. iv. 34/1 The band plonks away at sad, slow French and Italian numbers.
2. a. trans. To set or drop (something) in position with a heavy or clumsy gesture; to put down firmly. Also (with a person or object), to set (someone) abruptly in a particular place or set of circumstances; to seat (someone) hurriedly or unceremoniously. Cf. plank v. 2 a, plunk v. 3 b.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 55 Plonk down, to put down. Also, ‘plonk one's frame into a chair’: to sit down. 1946F. Cooze Ten Bob Each Way 22 So next time I plunged I forgot the tip And plonked my all on my own little pick. 1959Woman 16 May 23/2 An officious nurse plonked down a gas and air mask on my face. 1959Sunday Times 17 May 20/4 Jones has been plonked down in Gagland where the jokes are separate from the action and so has small chance of coming out strong as the comic actor we know him to be. 1967Spectator 29 Sept. 358/2 A nasty-looking structure will be plonked down in front of King's Cross, thus ruining its two magnificent archways. 1972G. Durrell Catch me Colobus vii. 145 Then you'd lead her [sc. a piglet] carefully to the pan and she'd plonk both her stubby front feet into it, little hooves wide-spread, and dig her nose in and guzzle. 1976P. Cave High Flying Birds ii. 20 A litre bottle of red wine was plonked down on to the counter under my nose. Plonked plonk, in fact. 1977Sounds 9 July 10/4 The 150 press-persons present were ushered into a darkened room, plonked on rows of chairs, told to put headphones on and left to listen.
b. refl. and absol. To sit (oneself) down heavily or unceremoniously.
1946U. Krige Way Out v. 64 Handing them two cigarettes each, I plonked down beside them to tell them the whole story. 1976M. Spark Takeover xii. 178 Walter now plonked himself, tired from his walk, on the sofa. 1979Guardian 9 Aug. 22/8 They would plonk themselves down, undress..to encourage support for local naturists.
Hence ˈplonking ppl. a., (a) dial., large; (b) that plonks; spec. (see quot. 1950); ˈplonking vbl. n.; ˈplonkingly adv.
1896Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 21 Mar. 3/8 What a plonkin' hoile tha hes fer a bedrahm. Little Jimmy hes a plonkin' wife. 1903in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 550/1 A gurt plonkin' cat. 1950S. Potter Lifemanship iii. 44 If you have nothing to say, or, rather, something extremely stupid and obvious, say it, but in a ‘plonking’ tone of voice—i.e. roundly, but hollowly and dogmatically. Ibid. 45 ‘Plonking’ of a kind can be made by the right use of quotation or pretended quotation. 1957Economist 5 Oct. 21/2 India, entangled in its own frontier troubles and engrossed with the problem of borrowing from abroad, has lately sounded a little less plonking in its pronouncements on international affairs. 1959S. Clark Puma's Claw xv. 181 Delivered with a gruff, passionate intensity (Potter would certainly call them plonking) those words always announced our arrival on a summit. 1965New Statesman 19 Mar. 426/2 These reports, so far from being accurate, have been described by one member of the shadow cabinet as ‘absolute poppycock’, and by another even more plonkingly, as ‘balls’. 1969D. Francis Enquiry ii. 31 ‘The bet was struck,’ Gowery said plonkingly, pointing to the ledger. 1977Listener 5 May 591/1 Presented with an argument that..he intended to ignore, Lord Reith would say in a matter-of-fact way: ‘I hear you.’ It was an admirably plonking rhetorical device. 1977Chainsaw Sept./Oct. 8/2 The singer is accompanied only by electric organ, regular drum beats, and plonking bass.
▪ II. plonk, n.1|plɒŋk|
[Imit.: cf. prec. and plunk n., adv., int.]
The sound of or as of one hard object hitting another; a heavy thud. Also as adv., with a plonk, directly, and as int. So plonk-plonk.
1903Wodehouse Tales of St. Austin's 9 There was a beautiful, musical plonk, and the ball soared to the very opposite quarter of the field. 1914Picture Fun 26 Dec. 2 He unfortunately pinched it just as the waiter was passing with a tray of ices, and plonk came that kangaroo's hind paws,..bang agin the old chap's tummy! 1920Punch 10 Mar. 199/2 A befogged Zeppelin laid a couple of bombs plonk into the homestead. 1928Manch. Guardian Weekly 15 June 474/1 A patois that sounds like the plonk-plonk of ping-pong balls on a hard table. 1943H. Pearson Conan Doyle iii. 46 ‘Plonk’ went the gun [sc. an airgun], and down went the medal. 1960Oxf. Mag. 28 Apr. 248 (Advt.), The satisfying plonk of The Observer falling on the doormat. 1978M. Birmingham Sleep in Ditch 118, I feel as if I'd thrown off an enormous weight. I hope it hasn't landed plonk on you.
▪ III. plonk, n.2 colloq. (orig. Austral.).|plɒŋk|
[prob. a corruption of blanc in Fr. vin blanc.]
Cheap wine, or wine of poor quality. Also attrib.
Various popular and humorous etymologies, such as that suggested in quot. 1967, are without foundation. Although it may be argued that the word denotes red wine more commonly than it does white wine, the etymology given above is attested by the earliest sources.
[1919W. H. Downing Digger Dialects 52 Vin blank, white wine. Ibid., Von blink, a humorous corruption of vin blanc.] 1930H. Williamson Patriot's Progress iv. 137 Nosey and Nobby shared a bottle of plinketty plonk, as vin blanc was called. 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Jan. 12 The man who drinks illicit brews or ‘plonk’ (otherwise known as ‘madman's soup’) by the quart does it in quiet spots or at home. 1940A. L. Haskell Waltzing Matilda 37 Fortified red wine of the kind that inebriates with speed and economy is ‘pinky’ or ‘plonk’. 1941K. Tennant Battlers ix. 104 ‘Keep off the plonk,’ Thirty-Bob said in an undertone to the Stray. ‘They just spilt some on my boot and it burnt a hole.’ 1946D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 72 Jessie's been on the plonk again... Goes round the wine bars at the Cross. 1949Here & Now (N.Z.) Oct. 9/1 Rows of gaudily-labelled bottles of local ‘plonk’ stacked on shelves behind the bar. 1950‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice 322 He asked me if I would drink tea or beer or plonk. ‘Plonk?’ I asked. ‘Red wine,’ he said. 1953A. Upfield Murder must Wait viii. 76 Mother gallivants about to plonk parties..plonk being Alice McGorr's designation of a sherry party. 1965New Statesman 3 Dec. 873/3, I do not eat in restaurants, travel first-class, or buy fillet steak. But there are cheaper cuts of meat, and wine, though mostly poor plonk stuff in the South, is cheap enough. 1967Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 21/8 Surely the word ‘plonk’ is onomatopoeic, being the noise made when a cork is withdrawn from the bottle? 1968Listener 1 Aug. 134/3 Over the numerous bars were texts urging moderation and adverts pushing the cheapest and most potent plonk in Britain. 1970Times 23 Mar. 25/5 Sales of his newly introduced Vin Plonque, or ‘plonk’ in the British vernacular, are soaring. 1973E. McGirr Bardel's Murder ii. 29 A Miss Traylor, aged seventy, intelligent and given to plonk. 1976Scotsman 24 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) 3/6 The author is particularly scathing about Sainsbury's Spanish plonk, but does not mention the same chain's better-than-average range of Hocks and Moselles. 1977Time Out 21 Jan. 3/3 Your review of ‘party plonk’..misses out the largest ‘chain’ of off-licences in London, the independents who belong to no chain. 1979Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Aug. 10/6 The only other customer was a construction worker who was buying a bottle of white plonk for about $1.40.
▪ IV. plonk, n.3 R.A.F. slang.|plɒŋk|
[Origin uncertain.]
An aircraftman second class.
1941New Statesman 30 Aug. 218/3 A.C. Plonk—Lowest in the R.A.F., aircraftman 2nd class. 1943C. H. Ward-Jackson Piece of Cake 10 A/C Plonk, aircraftman 2nd class. In 1914–1918 ‘plonk’ was Flanders slang for ‘mud’. Hence, an A/C Plonk is an aircraftman literally in the mud or at the bottom—that is, lowest classification of the lowest rank in the R.A.F. 1946Slipstream 62 Another synonym for an A.C.2 is A.C.Plonk. 1949J. R. Cole It was so Late 61, I was only an A.C. plonk at the time. |