How To Use Plonk In A Sentence
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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.
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He bought scores of wine books, consulted winemakers, and with textbook in hand attempted to turn the Bauduc plonk into a memorable wine.
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The opening is one piano note, plonked slowly, deliberately after the other.
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The thing that attracted me was that it wasn't your average plonk, plonk, three cord amateur musician.
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We plonked ourselves down in front of the telly and opened a couple of beers.
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Colleagues were called after the pair were accused of shoplifting bottles of plonk.
The Sun
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Their son goes to the cinema picks a row where there are three empty seats and plonks himself down in the middle one.
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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
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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).
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He takes the glass from me, plonking it down on his desk - a little too hard, if you ask me.
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My research tells me that "plonking" may be defined as the art of making the utterly obvious stupefyingly clear!
Recession, Inflation and Energy
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Readers unfamiliar with the word plonking should consult the works of Stephen Potter passim.
Armageddon Now?
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Having eaten in nearby restaurants, this is a great place to let your food settle with a bottle of reasonably priced plonk.
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Adele gasped, looking up to see Wes plonking himself in a seat beside her.
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As usual I joined in - what a pair of plonkers we were, lying there giggling on the lawn.
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She plonked herself down in front of the telly.
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I plugged the sensor into the Xbox 360 and plonked it in front of the telly.
Times, Sunday Times
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She plonked the beer on the counter.
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The Calgary restaurant wine scene has come a long way since a barrage of steak houses pushed gallons of cheap plonk down our throats via the infamous half-litre carafe.
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SACKED Jody says he's GLAD to be out of Hell's Kitchen - away from 'plonker' Grant
Undefined
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So we walked back to the village, and as we passed under a shady shop veranda, Max plonked herself down and refused to move.
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Each container had residues of wine - and not just any old plonk.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just plonk your bag anywhere.
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Old Bruce was sweeper and cleaner and he was also a plonko.
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He was limping a little, didn't seem to like standing on it, and just kept plonking himself down on the ground.
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Then he asked me to try some, but I didn't wish to as I had tried his wife's pork but he plonked some on my plate anyway.
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India's collection of medium-pacers—a rising factor in the game as the growing volume of cricket played makes the life of the genuine paceman an injury-ridden nightmare—have executed a very simple plan brilliantly, plonking the ball on a certain line and length, varying their pace and wobbling it a bit in the air, and England have had no answer.
Both India, England Struggle on Foreign Soil
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I pulled the samples out, plonked them on the table and started talking about them, looking round the room and catching people's eyes as I was talking.
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Then he plonked the teapot in the middle of the table.
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She dumped her bag next to her chair and plonked all her food on the table.
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Yet it's plonked between the vast, flat Rio de la Plata and the even vaster green plains of the pampas.
Buenos Aires
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I just didn't want to seem like a plonker who had just wasted his time carrying a rucksack full of water unnecessarily.
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‘I've discovered Night Nurse,’ he announced cheerfully, plonking the bottle on the side table.
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Draught beer is around €2.20 a glass, but why bother when you can buy fantastic Rioja reservas for the price of a bottle of plonk back home?
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We got a call two nights ago, at about 10 or 11 pm, just as we were planning to get really shloshed on a few bottles of cheap plonk.
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I never use plonk - it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish.
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You can plonk those bags down anywhere in my room.
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The singer got back to base around 11.30pm and plonked herself in front of the telly.
The Sun
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We were elected by you, you can get rid of us if you think we are plonkers.
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I introduce myself to the lady now seated on the other side of my computer, who plonks herself down on the table next to me and pouts.
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I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes.
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If memory serves, main courses were about £9.00 a time, and bottles of decent plonk from their limited wine list were about £12.00.
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He hastily boarded the bus and found the nearest vacant seat, flinging his bag on the window seat and plonking himself on the aisle seat, his favourite spot on the whole bus.
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Tomorrow morning, there will be some excruciating hangovers in our party, produced by a relatively small amount of plonk.
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I'm not sure if I was meant to pay but I ‘slipped’ in through the back door dragging my far-too-heavy case and plonked myself down… have a feeling that was not the thing to do but I was gonna claim ignorance being a Brit in a strange country!
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What you want to do with these gadgets is plonk them somewhere that lets you check the figures with a casual glance, perhaps when walking by.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only Fools and Horses by Graham McCann: review Graham McCann has written a book about the story of Only Fools and Horses, 30 years after the first episode was broadcast in 1981 cushty, luvvly-jubbly, twonk, plonker - instantly summon up the image of a loveable little chancer in a sheepskin coat.
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Luckily, you can now plonk your curious infants in front of Knowledge Adventure and let them find out for themselves.
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You can plonk those bags down anywhere in my room.
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The same bunch of plonkers are running the show.
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‘People are saying you're riding like a plonker,’ said his friend Colin Rate.
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You can do all the jaw-jaw in the morning, get stuck into the din-dins then watch the gee-gees in the afternoon, all accompanied by lashings of plonk-plonk.
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She plonked the beer on the counter.
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Are the displays themselves thinned out so that most objects no longer have other objects plonked in front of them?
Times, Sunday Times
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There I plonked myself back in the seat I was in before, desperately trying to recall every exact detail of recent past events.
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She plonked herself down in front of the telly.
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And they have to wash the whole thing down with a pint of lager or some cheap and plentiful plonk.
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The cane chairs may turn out to be a little rickety and you may have to guard against someone plonking themselves on your delicate low seat, for it could collapse along with them.
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‘Alright then,’ said I and followed him into my parent's sitting room where he plinked and plonked what can only be described as ‘radical jazz’ on the piano and I danced around like a loon.
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Polkinghorne was right, I think, to criticize Dawkins for being a plonking literalist for wrongly believing that believers are mostly plonking literalists.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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Would you decant a £2.99 bottle of plonk into an empty bottle of Beaune Pinot-Noir to impress your guests?
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Walk until your calves ache, then plonk yourselves down on the pebbles for some postprandial pash.
Love is in the (open) air
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They waved us to empty chairs, plonking cups filled with coffee as thick as treacle in front of us - and, completely unperturbed, carried on raising the roof.
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No more did wine wannabes have to resurrect their schoolboy French, or brave the obscurities of the appellation system to order a bottle of plonk.
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I personally think that IKEA is the very last place you should purchase from—their sofas are uncomfortable and there is nothing worse than coming home at the end of the day and plonking down on something that shoots you straight back out again!
The Best in Squooshy Sofas
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He plonked down beside me on a cushion and sat watching the screen with great attention.
Henry’s Demons
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And he plonked his considerable girth in between me and the lecherous customer for the rest of the visit.
Bosses I Have Known « Tales from the Reading Room
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Just as Formula One runs both drivers 'and constructors' championships, so the Premier League 2011-2012 should see the inaugural season of The Plonkership, in which managers would receive points for witlessness, disingenuousness and babyishness displayed during everything from media outings to interactions with fourth officials.
It's tight at the top of The Plonkership
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Iwas gratified to read last week that most people can't tell the difference between plonk and expensive wine.
Times, Sunday Times
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A horribly dry cake with no greeting was plonked in front of her.
Times, Sunday Times
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For instance, I agree entirely with his description of the music as ‘two plinks, a plonk, and a grrr!’
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Each container had residues of wine - and not just any old plonk.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hairdresser plonked me down in her spinning salon chair, took a handful of my hair and exclaimed gleefully,
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I introduce myself to the lady now seated on the other side of my computer, who plonks herself down on the table next to me and pouts.
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Wine now accounts for almost a quarter of alcohol sales, with Australian plonk accounting for six of the top ten wine brands sold in Britain.
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You've finished the last of the plonk in the wine rack, you've drunk the miniatures stolen from minibars and found at the bottom of your suitcase.
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Further to the comment from Mervyn Harris about the "plonker" Nicholas Lyndhurst (
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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They have just spent £60,000 of public money, plonking speed bumps and concrete chicanes on a country road where accidents were rare and dangerous speeding was nearly impossible.
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At the start, Amis announces certain 'general principles' to be followed in creating drinks, all of which can be derived, by natural drinkers 'logic, from the first of them, which holds that' up to a point [i.e. short of offering your guests one of those Balkan plonks marketed as wine, Cyprus sherry, poteen and the like], go for quantity rather than quality '.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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We plonked ourselves by the fire.
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But then the small guy from the row ahead of me decided that he didn't like his asile seat and he climbed over the top of me and plonked himself in the empty seat next to the window.
Red Eyes and Bad Carpet.
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I am glad they managed to fit you up, old boy – You sure, in my opinion was a plonker and never should have made it past sergeant. on February 9, 2010 at 10: 10 am Retired Sgt
Why front-line police officers are glad about Dizaei « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Kings Road was an arts colony and we were plonk in the middle.
Times, Sunday Times
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He plonked smack bang on the green green grass of Lismore Lake.
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Ever wondered how you can test your taste buds' ability to tell the difference between cheap plonk and fine wines?
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Stephen plodded up the wooden stairs and plonked himself down on a chair.
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He doesn't mind drinking plonk, but says that ‘like a lot of people in their forties, I'd rather have one really good bottle than 20 bottles of bad stuff’.
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The weakest element is the soundtrack - rhythmic rattles and plops, clonks, clicks and plonks, with vague background song - rather a letdown.
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In the list we have before us, some of the synonyms for getting boozed up are unfamiliar: shikkered, woofled, scronched, whipsey, plonked, bowzered and flacked.
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There's a medley, plonked out on a Hammond organ.
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My advice is to get a few bottles of plonk at the off-licence and get down to Ethas Kitchen, only a five minute drive away - a place that oozes ambience and offers quality dishes in a very unpretentious surrounding.
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We had pizza and a bottle of plonk.
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That may well be nothing more than a Sunday-night sandwich, but I am finding posh pubs, too, are plonking it on the side of everything from fish cakes to vegetable tarts.
Nigel Slater's runner bean chutney and simple pear tart recipes
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Can you not see the complete lack of logic in what you're saying, you beetroot-faced plonker!
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Even the plonkos, gentle smelly old men, knew we would never turn them away.
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‘We have some left over bacon’ Henrietta said and she carelessly plonked the strips of meat into the same frying pan as the eggs.
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I felt my heart plummet to the earth's core and sink into the scorching ball of fiery lava with an ominous plonking noise.
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You can plonk those bags down anywhere in my room.
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There is nothing on tv tonight so we have got the music channel on, what a plonker Paul looks trying to dance while sitting down… lol…
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First he took the radiator grille and plonked it on one side.
The Sun
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They waved us to empty chairs, plonking cups filled with coffee as thick as treacle in front of us - and, completely unperturbed, carried on raising the roof.
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I never use plonk - it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish.
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And so the day went, sailing on into the early evening, when there was a minor setback of the friends and family kind but that was soon put to rights with lashings of cheap Australian plonk and healthy dollops of my infamous corned beef hash.
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He plonks his boots next to him, I make the mistake of moving them to sit down, and he quickly retrieves them from the ground.
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The one-to-one dialogue gives children the chance to practise speech, something not achieved by plonking them in front of a television set.
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This was a stew of beans, carrots and sausage on to which had been plonked lumps of pork belly and confit duck.
Restaurant review: the Potted Pig
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The music be - bobs lightly in the background, plinking and plonking past gin joints, stepping hesitantly round every dark corner.
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To find yourself plonked just off the coast from a huge population of eager new consumers is a wonderful opportunity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Steve plonked himself down on a seat and stayed motionless as the bus moved away.
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Aside from the obvious lone-parenting issues – plonking your child in front of Peppa Pig while you go to the loo with the door open, for example – the biggest difference was being able to create our own timetable.
Charlie Condou: The three of us
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Spanish wine, which was higher in alcohol than other wines, was regarded mainly as cheaper heady plonk, and better, more expensive, wines were often cut with it.
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You whisk the eggs strenuously with a lot of milk and you put the result in a very hot, buttered frying pan and in a minute or less you plonk them on some toast, preferably with some beluga caviar.
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I keep getting misaddressed post meant for downstairs plonked on my doormat.
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When we meet he plonks his keys on the table and there is a picture of a little girl on his key-ring.
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There is always someone around to pick you up. ‘If Eliza keeps swilling the plonk like that, she had better hope so.’
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He ungracefully plonked himself into the nearest chair which squealed loudly in protest.
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To his luck, he found a window seat and plonked himself down on it.
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They've watched so many of them that they think they'd be far better at doing up houses than most of the plonkers we've seen gracing our television screens in recent times.
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An apple landed plonk on the ground.
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Graham McCann has written a book about the story of Only Fools and Horses, 30 years after the first episode was broadcast in 1981 cushty, luvvly-jubbly, twonk, plonker - instantly summon up the image of a loveable little chancer in a sheepskin coat called Del Boy.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Safari purists may well be horrified at the incongruity of all this luxury plonked in the middle of one of the world's best game parks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The plonking accordion-driven sections of Radio / Video lull the listener into a false sense of security, before the band once again whip themselves up into a tense accelerando before ‘rocking out’ to a glorious crescendo.
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It claims the move to copy the staple plonk on restaurant wine lists up and down the country will help shoppers confused about what to buy.
The Sun
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The guy's a plonker and made a totally ineffectual campaign leader.
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He plonks a small, beautifully-made mechanical instrument on the desk in front of me.
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But now, all you'll ever be is that plonker who appears in adverts on the telly.
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Melbourne had five licensed restaurants at most and a general attitude that you were a derelict or at least "a bit of a plonko" if seen to be drinking wine in a hotel.
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To find yourself plonked just off the coast from a huge population of eager new consumers is a wonderful opportunity.
Times, Sunday Times
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We won't stick it up on the notice board so everyone can have a laugh at what a plonker you are.
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Iwas gratified to read last week that most people can't tell the difference between plonk and expensive wine.
Times, Sunday Times
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'Do you know,' he said, plonking his gingeryhaired arms on her desk and trying to look caring and concerned,'why I came down here?
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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Plonked in front of me was a steaming, audibly sizzling pile of chunky meat, with no rice or vegetables in view.
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Outside his instrument shop a guy was pretending to play a cardboard banjo, with drawn on strings, sitting there going ‘plink plink plink plonk’ endlessly.
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I love custard! whether pure or if the recipe asks for some 'plonking' of custard.
Omnom
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We plonked the stone down where it was to live, stood back, looked at one another, nodded, and the decision was made.
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Safari purists may well be horrified at the incongruity of all this luxury plonked in the middle of one of the world's best game parks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clearly the espresso revolution - which plonked a Starbucks onto every street corner in the US and introduced the likes of "frappuccino" and "skinny double shots" into the western cultural lexicon - has been widespread, but not quite widespread enough.
Alex Matthews: A Latte Lover's Canadian Cold Turkey
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The thing that attracted me was that it wasn't your average plonk, plonk, three cord amateur musician.
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A view is redundant without a polished steel pattern plonked in the middle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps it's a subjective thing for me, but I don't see the point in commissioning a cover artist if you're going to plonk the title and author credit right in the heart of the painting.
Book Cover Smackdown (The Peter F. Hamilton Edition)! 'The Evolutionary Void' vs. 'Pandora's Star' vs. 'Judas Unchained'
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Some alcoholic drinks, namely port, brandy and plonk are loaded with additives known as congeners that have their own role to play in the thick head and general foulness a big night out can induce.
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It is one of the most dangerous places on Earth, yet in 2000 a pair of plonkers from London and Kent went there on an orchid-collecting holiday, and got kidnapped.
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At last there's more to Calais than sozzled British daytrippers lugging around crates of cheap plonk.
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An apple landed plonk on the ground.
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There's plonkers out there that will say it's short for yiddish like p*** is short for Pakistani, and that it's the same as the word 'Brit'.
The Guardian World News
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The word ‘plonker’ is not unparliamentary; it has not been ruled out as being unparliamentary.
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for those of us on the other side of the world, can you explain "plonker"?
Five reasons why I blog
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Just plonk them into the ground and they will grow away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like Lego creations, concrete farmhouses sport additional stories in brick, plonked on by builders in a hurry.
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Like a vintage bottle of plonk, this just gets better with age.
The Sun
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I hate mobile phone-owners, particularly men who brag about the merits of their latest chatter boxes, plonk them on bars, restaurant tables, walk, drive or cycle with one glued to their lughole.
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It claims the move to copy the staple plonk on restaurant wine lists up and down the country will help shoppers confused about what to buy.
The Sun
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I don't know why, butI can't work out whether it is embarrassing or entertaining to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury saying 'plonker'.
Archive 2005-10-01
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And plonked in the middle of the veg, a giant potato.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the other hand, her father received a full page of positive publicity about his property, and, I understand, the morning after the dreaded "plonker" article appeared, a bunch of flowers from his house agent, the cost of which may or may not be subtracted from their commission at a later date.
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It had just been plonked there.
Times, Sunday Times
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You've finished the last of the plonk in the wine rack, you've drunk the miniatures stolen from minibars and found at the bottom of your suitcase.
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Just plonk them into the ground and they will grow away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just plonk the flatscreen over the window and pretend.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think Edward's a plonker and I certainly won't follow his example.
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One former Eton schoolmate, Jamie, told us: ‘He is a bit of a plonker, but a nice enough chap and good at heart.’
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Elissa plonked her books on a space beside her and took a mouthful of rice.
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No, not that one, you plonker - the one that looks like a 10-pound lump hammer.
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I plugged the sensor into the Xbox 360 and plonked it in front of the telly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everyone from other countries must be just looking at him and thinking "plonker
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You bet it does, "she gurgled, plonking down the coffees.
GO!
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Pick of the plonk and pies Fiona Beckett Wines to trot out with the turkey.
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The main difference, she says, is that at home she likes to make rustic dishes that can be plonked on the table and shared.
Times, Sunday Times
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A horribly dry cake with no greeting was plonked in front of her.
Times, Sunday Times
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I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes.
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It used to be a Saturday night thing, go down to his place, make some pasta and get smashed on cheap plonk.
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She walks over and plonks herself beside David
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There are millions and millions of New Yorkers who, while aware that pizza in a ritzy suburb is going to be pricey and possibly even able to afford it now and then, would certainly think hard about plonking down $50 for it, and would probably exercise another option.
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Not sure what to make of Hobart - it probably used to be very pretty but now has some hideosities (concrete block buildings) plonked in the middle of it.
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Despite having countless comedy geniuses yell "plonker" at him on the streets, he doesn't hate the role that made him.
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What you want to do with these gadgets is plonk them somewhere that lets you check the figures with a casual glance, perhaps when walking by.
Times, Sunday Times
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I felt great and had even started to get into the plinky plonky whale music.
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She plonked it on the table and continued to rummage.
Unwritten
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Just plonk the flatscreen over the window and pretend.
Times, Sunday Times
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As I plonked myself down in my seat with my popcorn and my candy floss, cursing the child next to me who had managed to tread on my ingrown toenail and was now causing a ruckus, I knew exactly what to expect.
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Just another twit who reads the parer and plonks down what he finks
Gollum Brown( He Wants it ...)
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But old Dim, as soon as he'd slooshied this dollop of song like a lomtick of redhot meat plonked on your plate, let off one of his vulgarities, which in this case was a lip-trump fol - lowed by a dog-howl followed by two fingers pronging twice at the air followed by a clowny guffaw.
Where's the show?
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The skinhead came up to me with a grin, plonking his pint on my table, and asking how I was.
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Virtually everyone drinks the demon brew these days, even if it's cheap plonk bought in the supermarket at Mar'ton, much to the regret of Mean Mike at the post office.
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I ordered the meal with the funniest name, but then realised this was a mistake when the waiter plonked a plate consisting of nothing but vegetables, squid and pheasant eggs in front of me.
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But plants plonked on your window sill really are at the mercy of everything that the weather can throw at them, so they need all the help you can give.
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Kings Road was an arts colony and we were plonk in the middle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, as we were finishing our meal at around 10.30 pm, two couples wandered in, plonked themselves down at the bar and ordered a drink and a snack each.
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Watching a park cricketer routinely count to four, then plonk his foot towards the square-leg umpire and slog his way to a ton is not.
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I'm not an umbrella person and walking down the high street wearing a raincoat with the sun blazing down on you and the sweat pouring off your forehead makes you feel a total plonker.
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I think it's safe to say that it was because it made you look a right plonker.
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A view is redundant without a polished steel pattern plonked in the middle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yesterday on my arrival home from work, tired, grubby and not in the best of humour I plonked myself down in front of the pc, coffee and cigarette in hand, to check my mail before I set about any chores that needed attending too.
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Mayor Frank knew the bloke was a plonko come down to the river bank to avoid the authorities.
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So after all that, it turned out that it was my headphones that were faulty and not my iPod and I had waited more than an hour to be shown up as a bit of a plonker.
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It tastes like cheap plonk.
The Sun
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If you were seen coming out of a pub with a bottle in a brown paper bag, everyone knew you were a plonko.
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An investigation is under way after a new speed camera was plonked right in front of a recently erected warning sign for a dangerous Coppull bridge - partially obscuring it.
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By then they were sufficiently crocked on Bulgarian plonk not to notice.
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Had we stayed at home I'd have plonked myself in front of the TV and watched the ceremonies and the pageantry being played out in London.
