plonk.
The sound made by something solid landing.
Meaning & usage
The sound made by something solid landing.
The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.
Where this word comes from
Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
The sound of something solid landing.
I just heard a plonk – did something fall down in the kitchen?
Where this word comes from
Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
When you’ve finished with the sponge, just plonk it back in the sink.
To sit down heavily and without ceremony.
To automatically ignore or block a particular poster.
I got tired of his trolling and ad hominem attacks, so I plonked him.
Where this word comes from
Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
Precisely and forcefully.
He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table.
Where this word comes from
Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
AC Plonk
Where this word comes from
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.
A female police constable.
Chris and that plonk had better be flushing the scum out.
Where this word comes from
Probably a shortening of plonker.
Try it on your idea.
plonk has 5 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.
These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.
Explore the name generatorA word with a source.
Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.
Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.