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plonk

[ UK /plˈɒŋk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a cheap wine of inferior quality
  2. the noise of something dropping (as into liquid)
VERB
  1. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
    He planked himself into the sofa
    He planked the money on the table

How To Use plonk In A Sentence

  • It shall be like one of those period dramas, with guests conversing politely in the drawing room whilst Kate plonks away in the next room.
  • He bought scores of wine books, consulted winemakers, and with textbook in hand attempted to turn the Bauduc plonk into a memorable wine.
  • The opening is one piano note, plonked slowly, deliberately after the other.
  • The thing that attracted me was that it wasn't your average plonk, plonk, three cord amateur musician.
  • We plonked ourselves down in front of the telly and opened a couple of beers.
  • Colleagues were called after the pair were accused of shoplifting bottles of plonk. The Sun
  • Their son goes to the cinema picks a row where there are three empty seats and plonks himself down in the middle one.
  • The only person who comes forward to defend the McCanns seems to be an "army wife, army mother" who posts as Vancysgu, citing a book called The Skinback Fusiliers, which the Arrsers also delight in slagging off because it portrays trainees at Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire as "a gang of nasty little plonkers". Hugh Muir's diary
  • So I got away with looking like a bit of a plonker, and having to spend ten minutes replacing the broken link (I carry a spare link for moments like this).
  • He takes the glass from me, plonking it down on his desk - a little too hard, if you ask me.
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