different between plonk vs clonk

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pl??k/
• (US) enPR: plänk, IPA^(key): /pl??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic

Interjection

plonk

1. The sound made by something solid landing.
2. (Internet) The supposed sound of adding a user to one's killfile.

Noun

plonk (plural plonks)

1. (countable) The sound of something solid landing.

Verb

plonk (third-person singular simple present plonks, present participle plonking, simple past and past participle plonked)

1. (transitive) To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
2. (reflexive) To sit down heavily and without ceremony.
3. (transitive, Internet slang) To automatically ignore a particular poster.

   Synonym: killfile

Derived terms

• plonker

Adverb

plonk (not comparable)

1. (followed by a location) Precisely and forcefully.

Synonyms

• bang
• slap bang

Derived terms

• plonker

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

plonk (uncountable)

2. (uncountable, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
   • 1998, Pierre Spahni, Swiss Wine Market Report, page 95,

     The third category of wines is highly unattractive as these may only be sold as generic wines (white, red or rosé), without reference to any geographical location. Only surplus plonk and cooking wine would aspire to fall in this segment, which can be blended with any other wine - to any extent.

   • 2003, Joan del Monte, Plonk Goes the Weasel, page 201,

     Diesel took a large swallow out of the glass of red wine. He spluttered, choked, and spilled wine down one leg of his fawn colored pants. “My God,” he gasped, when he could speak. “What is that crap?”

     “Why cheap red wine,” Ford displayed the label. “You know. Plonk.”

   • 2011, Charles Spence, Maya U. Shankar, Heston Blumenthal, Chapter 11: ‘Sound Bites’: Auditory Contributions to the Perceeption and Consumption of Food and Drink, Francesca Bacci, David Melcher (editors), Art and the Senses, page 229,

     Given the results reported in this chapter, one obvious solution to the ‘plonk paradox’ (why cheap wine tastes good on holiday but terrible at home) would be to try and recapture some of these sensory impressions in one?s own living room, in order to enhance the flavour/pleasantness of the wine-drinking experience (and turn that horrible tasting wine into something that tastes really rather nice), and to elucidate the respective contributions of contextual effects on hedonic ratings.

3. (military, slang, historical) AC Plonk

Translations

Etymology 3

Probably a shortening of plonker.

Noun

plonk (plural plonks)

1. (countable, dated, Britain, law enforcement slang) A female police constable. [in the 1970s]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:police officer

References

English

Etymology

Imitative. Compare clink, clank, clunk.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kl??k/

Noun

clonk (plural clonks)

1. The abrupt sound of two hard objects coming into contact.
   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, 2005, Chapter 2, p. 54,^[1]

     He passed under a low branch now. It hit the top of his helmet with a clonk.
2. (fishing) A stick-like tool used to strike the surface of the water and produce a sound that causes nearby fish to attack the bait.

Verb

clonk (third-person singular simple present clonks, present participle clonking, simple past and past participle clonked)

1. To make such a sound.
   • 1953, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking, 1960, Chapter 17, p. 371,^[2]

     One half-naked kid with a garrison cap clonked on the marimba; the little black rubber balls on his sticks struck fast.