different between plop vs plip

English

Etymology

Imitative of the sound, or perhaps a variant of plap.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

plop (plural plops)

1. A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water.

   He heard the plops of rain on the roof.

2. (Britain, slang) excrement; derived from the "plop" sound made when it hits water in a toilet.

Translations

Verb

plop (third-person singular simple present plops, present participle plopping, simple past and past participle plopped)

1. To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.
   • 2012, Augusta Trobaugh, Music From Beyond The Moon (page 43)

     Stooping, she picked up another pebble, sounded out the word again, and tossed it into the shallow water near the path, where it plopped into the water, sending out circles from where it fell.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To land heavily or loosely.

   He plopped down on the sofa to watch TV.

   • 2009, Reif Larson, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Pinguin Books, p. 37:

     There was a world inside that tall grass. You could plop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.

3. (Britain) To defecate; derived from the "plop" sound made when excrement hits water in a toilet.

Translations

Anagrams

• Lopp

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• plopu, plup, plupu, pljop, pljopu, pliop, pliopu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *ploppus from classical Latin p?pulus. Compare Romanian plop.

Noun

plop m (plural plochi)

1. poplar

Romanian

Alternative forms

• pleop

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *ploppus, from classical Latin p?pulus. Compare Italian pioppo.

Noun

plop m (plural plopi)

1. poplar

   Pe lâng? plopii f?r? so?, adesea am trecut.

   By the pairless poplars, often have I passed.

Declension

References

• plop in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

plip (plural plips)

1. A light sound or action like liquid hitting a surface.

   He heard the plips of rain on the roof.

Verb

plip (third-person singular simple present plips, present participle plipping, simple past and past participle plipped)

1. To make the sound of liquid hitting a hard surface.

Etymology 2

From Plip (“remote control locking device”), perhaps influenced by onomatopoeia.

Verb

plip (third-person singular simple present plips, present participle plipping, simple past and past participle plipped)

1. To lock or unlock using a remote control locking device.
   • 2004, Jenny Colgan, Isla Dewar, Muriel Gray, et al. (contributors), Scottish Girls About Town, page 69,

     […] was unloading bags from the boot of a tiny, shiny, black Ka thing which she then plipped shut with an electronic key.

   • 2009, Matt Beaumont, Staying Alive, unnumbered page,

     I point it out to my companion, but he's already moving ahead of me, aiming the remote at the Porsche and plipping it open.

   • 2011, Stuart MacBride, Shatter the Bones, unnumbered page,

     He plipped the locks on the pool car, stuck the keys in his pocket and flexed his aching left hand.

Related terms

• plipper
• plop

Anagrams

• Lipp

Cebuano

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: plip

Verb

plip

1. to go crazy

Noun

plip

1. a crazy person

Derived terms

• plipaks