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plonk

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  plonk 
  n  1:  (British  and  Australian)  a  cheap  wine  of  inferior  quality 
  2:  the  noise  of  something  dropping  (as  into  liquid) 
  v  :  set  down  "He  planked  the  money  on  the  table";  "He  planked 
  himself  into  the  sofa"  [syn:  {plank},  {flump},  {plop},  {plunk}, 
  {plump  down},  {plunk  down},  {plump}] 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  plonk  excl.,vt.  [Usenet:  possibly  influenced  by  British  slang 
  `plonk'  for  cheap  booze,  or  `plonker'  for  someone  behaving  stupidly 
  (latter  is  lit.  equivalent  to  Yiddish  `schmuck')]  The  sound  a  {newbie} 
  makes  as  he  falls  to  the  bottom  of  a  {kill  file}.  While  it  originated 
  in  the  {newsgroup}  talk.bizarre,  this  term  (usually  written  "*plonk*") 
  is  now  (1994)  widespread  on  Usenet  as  a  form  of  public  ridicule. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  plonk 
 
    (Possibly  influenced  by  British  slang 
  plonk"  for  cheap  booze,  or  plonker"  for  someone  behaving 
  stupidly)  The  sound  a  {newbie}  makes  as  he  falls  to  the  bottom 
  of  a  {kill  file}.  Used  almost  exclusively  in  the  {Usenet} 
  {newsgroup}  {news:talk.bizarre},  this  term  (usually  written 
  "*plonk*")  is  a  form  of  public  ridicule. 
 
  Another  theory  is  that  it  is  an  acronym  for  "Person  with 
  Little  Or  No  Knowledge". 
 
  (1998-10-27)




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