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Definition of Plunking
1. plunk [v] - See also: plunk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plunking
Literary usage of Plunking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1920)
"I was plunking it like a banjo. Now I '11 play it, if you '11 stop talking."
Kirk did, and the mate began to play. His music was untaught, and he himself ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... without rising- from her place at table, which I think a thousand times more
becoming than trait- ing fo'k away to another room, and plunking and ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"The moving galley's bow was plunking them back through their own oar-holes, and
I could hear ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1853)
"Its construction is compounded of digging, piling, bracing, plunking, arching,
or tunneling under one or more railroads ..."
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