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Definition of Plunk for
1. Verb. Be behind; approve of. "I backed Kennedy in 1960"
Generic synonyms: Approve, O.k., Okay, Sanction
Specialized synonyms: Guarantee, Warrant, Champion, Defend
Related verbs: Back, Endorse, Indorse, Second
Derivative terms: Backing, Endorsement, Endorsement, Endorser, Indorsement, Indorsement, Support, Supporter, Supportive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plunk For
Literary usage of Plunk for
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"... instructions as to the manner of testing ihe plunk for the singing we exercised
ordinary care in the erection of the staging, and that question should, ..."
2. The Diary of Matthew Patten of Bedford, N.H. by Matthew Patten (1903)
"... not paid and I took off 12 sticks of slit work and 2 plunk for Cart fellows
that Joseph Houston sawed for me he spoiled 4 plank and 1 logg for slit work ..."
3. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1846)
"... Trees by the Roadside—1 a» Transplanting Trees—Bridge plunk for Wheel-Barrows—1 -c
Worms in the Bowels of animals, I Moss on Roofs—Potatoes, ..."
4. The Health Exhibition Literature (1884)
"(8) Patterns, Core Boxes, &c., for 2} HP Cylinder. (9) Newel Staircase, J .--île.
(10) plunk for Ramp and Wreath, showing application of face moulds. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property: With References to the by Judah Philip Benjamin, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1877)
"... deliver to the plaintiff a certain quantity of ash bending-stuff, and a certain
quantity of nsh plunk for a price amounting to more than fifty dollars, ..."
6. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Mass Boston Cooking School (Boston, Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1914)
"Then you bare one plunk for meat and one for £sh. (Price 91.0O.) The only reliable
and sure way to make Candy, Boiled Frosting, etc., etc. ..."
7. The Religious Miscellany (1824)
"... and the quickness with which she thrusts her infant from her breast to a floor
of earth, to provide him a box or a plunk for a seat; ron|d they se« the ..."
8. History of Oregon by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1888)
"... was a smaller one, and that each had a eaw-mill attached which cut a great
deal of plunk for the new arrivals. Journal, 85-6. There were 2 hotels, ..."
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