Posted on 07/02/2014 4:35:01 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, July 2, 2014-- plonk
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
plonk [plɒŋk]
noun (Chiefly British)
inferior or cheap wine.
Origin: 192530; perhaps alteration of French ( vin ) blanc white (wine)
verb
1. ( often foll by down ) to drop or be dropped, esp heavily or suddenly: he plonked the money on the table
noun
2. the act or sound of plonking
interjection
3. an exclamation imitative of this sound
Special Usage:
Computing Dictionary
plonk definition
networking, abuse (Possibly influenced by British slang "plonk" for cheap booze, or "plonker" for someone behaving stupidly; usually written "*plonk*") The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. While this term originated in the Usenet newsgroup news:talk.bizarre, by 1994 it was widespread on Usenet and mailing lists as a form of public ridicule. Another theory is that it is an acronym for "Person with Little Or No Knowledge".
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If it’ll make him happy, plonk down your cash for plonk.
they gonna have some ginormous swear jar?
Plunk your magic twanger, Froggie.
Nice job! (And I'm speaking as someone who has had his magic twanger plunked by experts.)
OMG how RACIST towards the dagos is THAT? LOL!
My Brit neighbor actually uses that word...
Obama has dug himself a hole
With his popularity sinking
He plonks down more garbage-
Whose koolaid is he drinking?
He has opted out on moving
Like Clinton to the middle-
Now he’s doing a Nixon, so
He will just play the fiddle
While Rome burns and he moves
His pen and his phone around
His legacy is toppling faster
And he doesn’t hear the sound
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OMG did you see the Giroux tweet that Dejan retweeted? I thought I would pee myself it was so hilarious!
We used to be able to have a little fun, mocking ethnic stereotypes. Most people would laugh loudest when their own group was the target. Nowadays, everyone is so freaking sensitive.
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One of your more poetic poems, to coin a phrase.
If a legacy topples in the woods and nobody hears it, does it still make a sound?
Good grief. You could set your beer down on one cheek and the remote control on the other.
No, not yet. I haven’t really been following this other than figuring out he grabbed a cop’s butt. Was he really drunk or is he gay? Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Thanks I was around five years old at the time, with just a vague recollection of seeing that particular show programs of that genre tend to mesh together in my failing memory
(Actually, credit the Interwebs for the catch via “Devine + Frog”;)
Thank you!
It only makes a sound if mushrooms and other fungi are listening...
Should we be pronouncing the last name of our newcomer D-man Josh “Gorgeous” a la Streisand ;?
Phlyers are phags, we all know that.
Then they should go to Burger Queen or King, or whatever.
I don’t know but penguin fans are having a field day with it bc all of the Sid is gay cracks from flyers fans. I do not think Giroux is gay bc he’s far too hot in a non pretty missing tooth kind of way!
Yeah well my future son in law is a flyer fan and I happen to think the gingeroux is hot!
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