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say it: pluhngk
plunk is a verb, noun and adverb meaning "make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground". It carries 7 recorded senses.
set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
“He planked the money on the table”
“He planked himself into the sofa”
drop steeply
“the stock market plunged”
a hollow twanging sound
with a short hollow thud
“plop came the ball down to the corner of the green”
colloquialism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for plunk come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.