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Plonk can be an interjection, a verb, an adverb or a noun.
plonk used as an interjection:
- The sound made by something solid landing.
- The supposed sound of adding a user to one's killfile.
An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →
plonk used as a verb:
- To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
"When you’ve finished with the sponge, just plonk it back in the sink." - In Internet forums, to automatically ignore a particular poster; killfile.
"I got tired of his trolling and ad hominem attacks, so I plonked him."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
plonk used as an adverb:
- Precisely and forcefully.
"He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
plonk used as a noun:
- The sound of something solid landing.
"I just heard a plonk — did something fall down in the kitchen?" - Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
"We had sandwiches and a bottle of plonk for dinner last night!" - 1970s UK police slang for a female police constable.
"Chris and that plonk had better be flushing the scum out."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is plonk?
- Verb usage: When you’ve finished with the sponge, just plonk it back in the sink.
- Verb usage: I got tired of his trolling and ad hominem attacks, so I plonked him.
- Adverb usage: He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table.
- Noun usage: I just heard a plonk — did something fall down in the kitchen?
- Noun usage: We had sandwiches and a bottle of plonk for dinner last night!
- Noun usage: Chris and that plonk had better be flushing the scum out.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of plonk are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of plonk, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).