PLONK
Dictionary entry overview: What does plonk mean?
• PLONK (noun)
The noun PLONK has 2 senses:
1. a cheap wine of inferior quality
2. the noise of something dropping (as into liquid)
Familiarity information: PLONK used as a noun is rare.
• PLONK (verb)
The verb PLONK has 1 sense:
1. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
Familiarity information: PLONK used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PLONK (noun)
Meaning:
A cheap wine of inferior quality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("plonk" is a kind of...):
vino; wine (fermented juice (of grapes especially))
Domain region:
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Britain; GB; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland)
Meaning:
The noise of something dropping (as into liquid)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("plonk" is a kind of...):
noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))
• PLONK (verb)
Meaning:
Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
plunk down; plonk; plank; flump; plump; plump down; plunk; plop
Context examples:
He planked the money on the table / He planked himself into the sofa
Hypernyms (to "plonk" is one way to...):
place down; put down; set down (cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
