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Etymology 1

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Noun

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pling (plural plings)

  1. (computing, dated) The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
    • 1989, John Littler, John Maher, Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing:
      This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.
    • 1994, C.P. Brown, “HAhAhA”, in comp.sys.acorn.advocacy (Usenet):
      IMO, prefixing a directory name with a pling so that a program within it is run when you double click on it is a rather untidy way to do things.
    • 1994, Stewart Palmer, Mark Moir, Developing CD-ROM products for Acorn machines:
      Make sure that you consider ISO 9660 restrictions on the use of characters in disc, directory and file names. Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal characters.
    • 1996, Tim Wiser, “Pling thing revisited”, in comp.sys.acorn.apps (Usenet):
      Acorn Computing used to be big offenders when it came to referring to applications by their pling-inclusive names. They loved it. Unfortunately it made their articles sound silly (for want of a better adjective).
Usage notes
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  • Associated with Acorn Computers, e.g. used in the 1980 manual for the Acorn Atom, Atomic Theory and Practice by David Johnson-Davies.
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Etymology 2

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Imitative.

Noun

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pling (plural plings)

  1. A soft bell-like sound; ding.

Verb

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pling (third-person singular simple present plings, present participle plinging, simple past and past participle plinged)

  1. (intransitive) To produce a soft bell-like sound.
    • 2019, Philip Gwynne Jones, The Venetian Masquerade:
      The computer plinged to announce the arrival of another email, this time from Isotta.

Swedish

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Noun

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pling n

  1. a ding or a ringing sound (often with a high and clear tone)

Declension

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Noun

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pling c

  1. (colloquial, in "slå (någon) en pling") to call (someone, on the phone)
    Slå mig en pling när ni är färdiga
    Call me when you're done

Declension

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Declension of pling
nominative genitive
singular indefinite pling plings
definite plingen plingens
plural indefinite
definite

Interjection

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pling

  1. represents a ding or a ringing sound (often with a high and clear tone)
    Pling! Maten i mikron var klar.
    Ding! The food in the microwave was ready.
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References

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West Flemish

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Noun

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pling n (plural plings)

  1. sports field
  2. square