Definition of Plunking

1. Verb. (present participle of plunk) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plunking

1. plunk [v] - See also: plunk

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plunking

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

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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