different between plonk vs plink

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

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

plink (plural plinks)

1. A short, high-pitched metallic or percussive sound.

Verb

plink (third-person singular simple present plinks, present participle plinking, simple past and past participle plinked)

1. To make a plink sound.
2. (with "out") (colloquial) To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.
   • 1971: Louis C. Reichman, Barry J. Wishart, American Politics and Its Interpreters

     He can plink out Let Me Call You Sweetheart for reporters on a piano or rib himself on television talk shows […]

   • 1997: Kevin Osborn, Signe Larson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bringing Up Baby

     Your child may also begin to plink out a few notes on a xylophone or toy piano before her first birthday.

   • 2004: Angela Elwell Hunt, The Truth Teller

     The female deputy sat down at the ramshackle piano and proceeded to plink out the opening notes of "Heart and Soul."

3. (firearms) To take part in the sport of plinking.
   • 1992, Ken Warner, Gun Digest, 1993 (page 19)

     We plinked all week long in the slow-moving days between hunting seasons. Life Savers or Necco Wafers at 25 yards offhand, or 50 yards prone, and vanilla wafers offhand at 50 yards or prone at 100, were challenging targets.