different between vintage vs plonk

English

Etymology

From Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge (cognate with French vendange), from Latin v?nd?mia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage”), from v?num (“wine”) + d?m? (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of; from, away from”) + em? (“acquire, obtain”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?n?t?j, IPA^(key): /?v?n.t?d?/

Noun

vintage (countable and uncountable, plural vintages)

1. The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.
2. Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
3. The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.
4. The year or place in which something is produced.

Derived terms

• make vintage

Translations

Adjective

vintage (comparative more vintage, superlative most vintage)

1. (attributively) Of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage.
2. (attributively) Having an enduring appeal; high-quality.
3. (attributively) Classic (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s and early 1990s, old magazines, etc.).
   1. (Of a motor car) built between the years 1919 and (usually) 1930 (or sometimes 1919 to 1925 in the USA).
   2. (Of a watch) produced between the years 1870 and 1980.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

vintage (third-person singular simple present vintages, present participle vintaging, simple past and past participle vintaged)

1. (transitive) To harvest (grapes).
2. (transitive) To make (wine) from grapes.

Derived terms

• vintaging

Translations

See also

• classic
• veteran

Further reading

• vintage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vintage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Vigeant, vagient

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English vintage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vin.t?d?/, /v??.ta?/

Adjective

vintage (plural vintages)

1. vintage

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English vintage. Doublet of vendimia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bin?taxe/, [b?n??t?a.xe]

Adjective

vintage (plural vintages)

1. vintage

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

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