plonk

adv

Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.

1. Precisely and forcefully.

   “He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table.”

intj

Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.

1. The sound made by something solid landing.
2. The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.

name

1. A solution stack consisting of Prometheus (metrics and time-series), Linkerd (service mesh), OpenFaaS (management and auto-scaling of compute), NATS (asynchronous message bus/queue), and Kubernetes (declarative, extensible, scale-out, self-healing clustering).

noun

Etymology: Probably a shortening of plonker.

1. A female police constable.

   “Chris and that plonk had better be flushing the scum out.”

verb

Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.

1. To set or toss (something) down carelessly.

   “When you’ve finished with the sponge, just plonk it back in the sink.”

   “We sat alfresco on the edge of a “square,” in reality a pond of cobbly mud with a plinth plonked in its navel […]”

2. To sit down heavily and without ceremony.

   “Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.”

   “Changing trains at Hereford, I catch the West Midlands Class 170 that is waiting for me at Platform 1. Plonking myself in a table bay, I settle in to enjoy the trip on what is another quiet train - well, until Ledbury, where a couple of dozen people are waiting.”

3. To automatically ignore a particular poster.

   “I got tired of his trolling and ad hominem attacks, so I plonked him.”