Lexicographical Neighbors of Plunky
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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