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▪ I. plop, n. and adv.|plɒp|
[Echoic: cf. plump.]
A. n. The sound made by a smooth object dropping into water without splashing, by water falling in a small mass, or by bursting bubbles in boiling liquid; the act of falling with this sound. Also in transf. and extended uses.
1833M. Scott Tom Cringle ix, We tugged at the sable heroine, and first one leg came home out of the tenacious clay, with a plop. 1863Baring-Gould Iceland 212 The plop plop of the little mud pools. 1886G. Allen Life Darwin i. 9 The wave of thought and feeling..stirred on the unruffled pond of eighteenth century opinion by the startling plop of Buffon's little pebble. 1892Lowndes Camping Sk. 85 We threw tiny stones into the water, at the quick plop of which the angler would hurry to the spot. 1941Sun (Baltimore) 4 Nov. 10/7 ‘Plops’, the sound heard when ‘p’ or ‘b’ is spoken too loudly. 1965Wireless World Aug. 379/2 Another effect is the possibility of a 10W ‘plop’ when switching on the power supply. 1967P. A. Pinckney Painting in Texas v. 77 They might even hear the plop of acorns or pecans falling from trees along the creek. 1969A. Glyn Dragon Variation vi. 171 The gas fire went out with a plop. 1974Harvey & Bohlman Stereo F.M. Radio Handbk. v. 104 The system is arranged so that the audio mute is activated before the i.f. mute and this staggering of the two muting levels reduces the edge-of-station ‘plop’. 1979W. Nelson Minstrel Code ix. 77 The automatic..was so silent that even the characteristic ‘plop’ of a silencer had been eliminated.
B. adv. or int. With a plop.
1844Thackeray Wand. Fat Contrib. ii, She advances backwards towards the coming wave, and as it reaches her—plop! she sits down in it. 1863Kingsley Water-Bab. iii, A few great drops of rain fell plop into the water.
C. As first element in various alliterative combinations, as plop-plop, plop-plump, etc. Chiefly as adv. or int.
1893‘A. Hope’ in Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 2/1 Miss Phaeton flicked Rhino, and the groom behind went plop-plop on the seat. 1921Blackw. Mag. Feb. 198/2 There is something peculiarly gratifying in the sound of the plop-plump of your naked feet in the round shallow pools of muddy water. 1922Joyce Ulysses 552 Whispering lovewords murmur liplapping loudly, poppysmic plopslop. 1928J. M. Barrie Peter Pan iii. 75 There are many mermaids here, going plop-plop, and one might attempt to count the tails.
▪ II. plop, v.|plɒp|
[Echoic: cf. prec., and plump v.]
1. intr. To fall with or as with a plop; to drop flat into or upon; to plump, flop. to plop up: To rise with a plop, as a bubble, etc. Also trans. in causative sense, and refl. (and with down). Also fig.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 16 The brook, which I have..watch'd with joy till bursting off it plopt In running gushes of wild murmuring groans. 1839Thackeray Catherine vii, An apple plops on your nose, and makes you a world's wonder and glory. 1897Kipling Capt. Cour. iii, The released lead plopped into the sea far ahead. 1900E. Glyn Visits Eliz. 66, I do hate to see a great hand..plopping a dish down..in the middle, so that one has to look at the next course all the time one is finishing the last one. 1960V. Nabokov Invitation to Beheading iii. 37 Emmie was gazing after them, while she lightly plopped the glossy red and blue ball in her hands. 1971Angling Times 10 June 6/2, I plopped that lot under a bridge..and cheerfully expected to net every eel that passed downriver that night. 1975A. Bergman Hollywood & LeVine vi. 71 She plopped herself comfortably onto the couch. 1975New Yorker 28 July 8 (Advt.), Something happens at The Biltmore that just doesn't happen in those plasti-glass, modular hotels that have plopped themselves down in every city in the country.
2. intr. To emit a sound or series of sounds suggestive of plopping.
1927C. Connolly Let. 4 Jan. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 207, I got very depressed on Sunday evening and thought of..gas mantles plopping in evening chapel. 1972R. Adams Watership Down iii. xxxviii. 316 All the surface of the river was winking and plopping in the rain.
Hence ˈplopping vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1827Clare Sheph. Cal. 84 The plopping gun's sharp, momentary shock. 1893J. A. Barry S. Brown's Bunyip, etc. 218 Ploppings and splashings as of many small swimmers. 1897Blackw. Mag. Nov. 589/2 The plopping of the waves against the wall. |