plunk
pronunciation
How to pronounce plunk in British English:
UK [plʌŋk]
How to pronounce plunk in American English:
US [plʌŋk]
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- Noun:
- a hollow twanging sound
- (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly
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- Verb:
- make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
- set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
- drop steeply
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
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- Adverb:
- with a short hollow thud
Word Origin
- plunk (v.)
- 1805, "to pluck a stringed instrument;" 1808 in sense of "drop down abruptly;" 1888 as "to hit, wound, shoot." Probably of imitative origin in all cases. Related: Plunked; plunking.
Example
- 1. Just plunk them in front of the tv .
- 2. Tourists at china 's hainan beach resort strap on scuba tanks and plunk briefly into the ocean .
- 3. By contrast , it can take a day or two to pull a big chunk of cash from a savings account and plunk it into a brokerage account .