Definition of Plunky

1. marked by a quick, hollow metallic sound [adj PLUNKIER, PLUNKIEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plunky

plunges
plunging
plungingly
plungings
plunk
plunk down
plunk for
plunked
plunker
plunkers
plunket
plunkier
plunkiest
plunking
plunks
plunky (current term)
pluot
pluots
pluperfect
pluperfect tense
pluperfects
plural
plural form
plural marriage
plural noun
plural pregnancy
plurale tantum
pluralia
pluralia tantum
pluralisability

Literary usage of Plunky

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Dictionary of Provincialisms by William Holloway (1840)
"[See plunky.] A walking stick with a large knob. Clone. To POACH, vn To be soft in consequence of wet ; being generally said of ground which is too wet to ..."

2. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"plunky, adj. short, thick, and heavy. JAM. has the verb plunk, to plump, ... Certainly a, plunky"body must gravitate with great velocity and momentum ! c. ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"plunky. Short, thick, and heavy. *Poach. To tread soft land by cattle [Spur.]. Pock-fretten, Pock-broken. Marked with the smallpox. Pod. ..."

4. A General Dictionary of Provincialisms by William Holloway (1840)
"[See plunky.] A walking stick with a large knob. Clone. To POACH, vn To be soft in consequence of wet ; being generally said of ground which is too wet to ..."

5. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"plunky, adj. short, thick, and heavy. JAM. has the verb plunk, to plump, ... Certainly a, plunky"body must gravitate with great velocity and momentum ! c. ..."

6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"plunky. Short, thick, and heavy. *Poach. To tread soft land by cattle [Spur.]. Pock-fretten, Pock-broken. Marked with the smallpox. Pod. ..."

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