plonk

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noun Chiefly British.

inferior or cheap wine.

Origin:
1925–30; perhaps alteration of French (vin) blanc white (wine)

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plonk¹ (plɒŋk)

—vb
1.	(often foll by down) to drop or be dropped, esp heavily or suddenly: he plonked the money on the table

—n
2.	the act or sound of plonking

—*interj*
3.	an exclamation imitative of this sound

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plonk² (plɒŋk)

—n
	informal (Brit), (Austral), (NZ) alcoholic drink, usually wine, esp of inferior quality

[C20: perhaps from French blanc white, as in vin blanc white wine]

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plonk definition

n.
white wine; cheap wine; any liquor. (From French blanc.) : That plonk is really hard on the gut.

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plonk definition

networking, abuse
(Possibly influenced by British slang "plonk" for cheap booze, or "plonker" for someone behaving stupidly; usually written "*plonk*") The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. While this term originated in the Usenet newsgroup news:talk.bizarre, by 1994 it was widespread on Usenet and mailing lists as a form of public ridicule.
Another theory is that it is an acronym for "Person with Little Or No Knowledge".
(2002-01-18)

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By the way, you yourself rarely provide links on your plonk page so that readers can judge for themselves.

Truthfully, the vast majority of cachaça is industrial plonk.

Wake to the plonk, plonk, plank of dewdrops hitting the lower wing of a biplane.

Your correspondent will be among the first to plonk down his cash the moment diesel versions of family runabouts arrive.

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"One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no."

-William Gass