Plunk

Definition: Plunk

Plunk

Adverb

1. (informal) with a short hollow thud; "plop came the ball down to the corner of the green".

Noun

1. A hollow twanging sound.

2. The act of hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly.

Verb

1. Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground.

2. Set (something or oneself) down; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa".

3. Drop steeply; "the stock market plunged".

4. Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion, as of guitar strings; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Plunk

Relax, and listen to the rain on the roof go plunk planka plink plunk planka plink planka (Follies in Concert; writing credit: James Goldman)

Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom (1953)

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Books

• Thump and Plunk (My First I Can Read Book) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "plunk": plunk down ♦ plunk for. Additional references.

Ending with "plunk": tinkle-plunk.

Albanian

plasje (backfire, bang, blast, blowout, blowup, burst, cleavage, detonation, report), plas (break out, crack, fling, howl, pop, rip), plandosje (flop, plump), pëlltum (flick, plop, plump), bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقر أوتار العود, ‏نقر (drum, flip, gouge, peck, percuss, prickle, tap, tapping), ‏غطس (dip, dive, douse, duck, immerse, immersion, plunge, sink, submerge), ‏أيد (advocate, affirm, champion, countenance, favor, favour, further, go in for, look with favor on, look with favour on, reason, second, side, side with, stand for, stand up for, stick up, stick up for, subscribe, subserve, support, sustain, underpin, uphold, validate), ‏رن (chime, chink, clang, peal, ping, resonate, resound, ring, sound, strike, tinkle, toll, twang). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удрям силно (belabor, belabour, swat), силен удар (biff, clip, lick, slog, slosh, smacker, smasher, sock, stinger, swipe, thump, wallop, welt, welter, whammy, whang, whop), хвърлям (aim, broadcast, cast, cob, dart, dash, draw, fling, fling down, flung, heave, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, pass, pitch, pounce, precipitate, project, send, shadow, shed, shoot, shoot out, sling, sock, throw, throw off, throw out, toss, toss about, whop), цопвам (douse, flop in, plop, plump), звънтя (chink, clang, clink, ding, jingle, ping, ring, tang, tinkle), звън (bell, jingle, ring, ting), захвърлям (discard, fling, forsake, hurl, relegate, shelve, throw down, throw off), бухвам, блъсвам силно, дрънчене (clank, jangle, jingle, tang), дрънкане (blab, chink, clink, gab, jangle, rattle, tattle, thrum, tinkle), дрънкам (blab, cank, chin, chink, cosher, gab, jangle, jingle, prate, rattle, tinkle, twaddle), долар (buck, dollar). (various references)

Czech

odprásknout. (various references)

Farsi 

قارقارکردن , وزش (Blast, Bop, Guff, Whiff, Whop), تلپی افتادن (Plop), ضربت (Bat, Bob, Buff, Buffet, Bump, Contusion, Coup, Crack, Hack, Hew, Impact, Jar, Jolt, Jow, Knock, Percussion, Pounce, Pound, Slap, Stroke, Swat, Thump, Thwack, Whack, Yerk), صدای تندوخشن دراوردن , باصدای تلپ (Plop). (various references)

French

pincement, tomber sur. (various references)

German

zupfen (pick, pluck, pull, rip, snick, stretch, tear, twang, twitch, twitching), hinschmeißen (chuck down, chuck in, chuck up, fling down, pack in, plonk, plunk down). (various references)

Greek 

ρίπτω ταχέωσ, σπρώχνω ταχέωσ, τραβώ (appeal, appeal to, attract, draw, haul, lug, pluck, pull, wrest). (various references)

Hungarian

váratlan ütés (plonk, sucker punch), erős pengetés (plonk), éles pengetés (plonk). (various references)

Italian

sonare (blow, sound), buttarsi (throw). (various references)

Pig Latin

unkplay.(various references)

Portuguese

pancada (bang, bash, bat, biff, blow, bob, bop, clout, crack, cram, dint, drub, flaw, flick, knock, lick, milling, pelt, shock, smacker, stinger, strike, stroke, swat), som estridente (clang), dólar (dollar, smacker). (various references)

Russian 

сильный удар (bang, bash, biff, clip, humming blow, lick, pelt, polt, slog, staggerer, swinger, swipe, thwack, wallop, whack), звон (chink, clank, clink, ding-dong, jingle, ping, ring, tang), звенеть (chink, clink, jingle, tinkle), бухнуть (thrash), бренчать (clank, strum, strummed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prebirati (pluck), upravo (just, properly, right, timely), sasvim (all over, all: at all, clean, completely, dead, entirely, fairly, lock up stock and barrel, quite, sheer, span-new, stark, stinking, throughout, totally, utterly, well, well nigh, whole, wholly, wide), bubnuti. (various references)

Spanish

ruido sordo (grumble, plonk, plump, thud, thump), rasgueo, rasguear (strum), golpe seco (plonk, rap, snap), dejarse caer pesadamente (plonk, slump), dejar caer pesadamente (plonk), dólar (buck, dollar, plonk, smacker), con un ruido sordo (plump). (various references)

Swedish

duns (bump, clonk, flop, plop, thud, thump). (various references)

Turkish

patlamak (blow, blow out, blow up, break, burst, crack, detonate, erupt, explode, fulminate, go off, go pop, go up, knock back, let fly, plonk, pop, puncture, set back, snap, spring), vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), tam ortasına (plonk), tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole), küt diye (plonk, plump, with a sharp blow), gümlemek (boom, plonk), güm diye (plonk), dan diye, düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), çarpmak (bang, bang into, barge, bash, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, collide, crash, crash into, dash, foul, greet, hit, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock, knock out, knock over, lash, mulct, multiply, plant, plonk, plonk down, pound, pulsate, pulse, ram, reach, run, run against, slam, slap, smash, smite upon, spring, strike, strike against, throb). (various references)

Ukrainian

сильний удар (bang, bash, lick, oner, pelt, slam, slog, spanker, staggerer, swat, swinger, swipe, wallop), різко штовхати, гепнутися (flop, whop), гепнути (souse), перебирати струни, дзвінко (clearly), дзвін (bell, chink, ding, ding-dong, jingle, peal, ringing). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "plunk": plunked, plunker, plunkers, plunking, plunks. (additional references)

Words ending with "plunk": kerplunk. (additional references)

Words containing "plunk": kerplunked, kerplunking, kerplunks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Plunk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lunk, Phunky, Pliun, Plonky, ploonk, pluke, plun, Pluna, plunc, plune, plung, plunky, plunt, pulik, pulk, Punkt, splunk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lunk, punk.

-2 letters: pul, pun.

-3 letters: nu, un, up.

+1 letter: linkup, plunks, uplink.

+2 letters: linkups, plunked, plunker, spelunk, uplinks.

+3 letters: kerplunk, penuckle, plucking, plunkers, plunking, spelunks, spunkily.

+4 letters: bumpkinly, kerplunks, penuckles, spelunked, spelunker.

+5 letters: kerplunked, leukopenia, leukopenic, pluckiness, spelunkers, spelunking.