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🧳 To drop heavily 🎹 To pluck sharply 🎸 A twang sound 🐴 To thud ⚾ A soft hit
plunk

plunk

1 7.8
A short hollow sound made by pulling a string or hitting an object
  • noun
  • /plʌŋk/
translation icon : plin
  • When I dropped the empty bottle, it landed with a loud plunk in the metal bin.
  • an isolated plunk

Examples

  • We can, in fact, hear a low, musical plunk. There's a pause, and then we can hear it again.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • While she continued to putter around, Adikor's Companion made a plunk sound.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • [ Plunk ]

    The Great Dictator (1940)

  • Simply there, free, running free; arrested by the shimmering light of the creek as it played across the rocks, or by the plunk of stones dropped one by one into the rippling surface of a pond formed by beavers.

    Academic text (1995)

  • It turned sideways as it flew, made a loud plunk when it hit the lake, and sank like a—well, like a stone.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • As the musician plucked the string, it produced a high-pitched plunk that filled the room.

  • The stone made a clear plunk when it hit the water's surface, causing ripples to spread.

Synonyms

plink
vsplunk
1 8.6

A short high metal sound from a small hit

has a lower hollow twang from plucked strings or similar strikes

How Loud

clang
28 3.9
to twang
1 6.5
plunk
1 7.8
plink
1 8.6
tick
34 2.0

Surface Forms

plunk singular
plunks plural

Etymology

Plunk copies a short, hollow sound, like the twang when you pluck a string or a pebble drops into a pond. So a 'plunk' is that quick, hollow noise.