plop
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Imitative of the sound, or perhaps a variant of plap.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
plop (plural plops)
- A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water.
- He heard the plops of rain on the roof.
- (Britain, slang) excrement; derived from the "plop" sound made when it hits water in a toilet.
Translations[edit]
A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface
Verb[edit]
plop (third-person singular simple present plops, present participle plopping, simple past and past participle plopped)
- To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.
- 2012, Augusta Trobaugh, Music From Beyond The Moon (page 43)
- Stooping, she picked up another pebble, sounded out the word again, and tossed it into the shallow water near the path, where it plopped into the water, sending out circles from where it fell.
- 2012, Augusta Trobaugh, Music From Beyond The Moon (page 43)
- (transitive, intransitive) To land heavily or loosely.
- He plopped down on the sofa to watch TV.
- 2009, Reif Larson, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Pinguin Books, p. 37:
- There was a world inside that tall grass. You could plop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.
- 2022 October 19, J. Kenji López-Alt, “What Kenji López-Alt Makes His Family for Dinner”, in The New York Times[1]:
- The first time I had niku udon was at a Japanese convenience store, now long closed, near Columbia University in the mid-1990s. For about $5, the attendants would plop a handful of freshly boiled udon into a Styrofoam cup and add a ladle of dashi broth seasoned with soy sauce and mirin.
- (Britain) To defecate; derived from the "plop" sound made when excrement hits water in a toilet.
Translations[edit]
Sounding of liquid
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Heavy landing
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Anagrams[edit]
Aromanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *ploppus from classical Latin pōpulus. Compare Romanian plop.
Noun[edit]
plop m (plural plochi)
Romanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *ploppus, from classical Latin pōpulus. Compare Italian pioppo.
Noun[edit]
plop m (plural plopi)
Declension[edit]
Declension of plop
References[edit]
- plop in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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