plonker
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈplɒŋ.kə(ɹ)/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒŋkə(ɹ)
Noun
plonker (plural plonkers)
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, derogatory) A fool.
- 2020 May 20, Jemaine Clement, “The Return” (: from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows[1], season 2, episode 7, spoken by Nadja (Natasia Demetriou):
- “You kept the hat! You bloody plonker!” “Fuck me.” “And now look at you, bouncing off the cars like a bouncing idiot.” “Fucking hell!” “Is he gonna be alright?”
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A penis.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, dated) A man who sanctions sexual relationships between his girlfriend and his male friends.[1]
Synonyms
- (fool): See Thesaurus:fool or Thesaurus:idiot
- (penis): See Thesaurus:penis
- (man who sanctions cuckoldry): mari complaisant, wittol
Derived terms
Translations
fool
References
- ^ BBC History- The WordhuntWordhunters noticed that the OED's earliest two quotations in their entry for 'plonker' were misplaced. In the original 1966 citation from All Neat in Black Stockings by J Gaskell, the word refers not to a 'foolish, inept or contemptible person', but to a wholly different sense of the word, meaning 'a man who sanctions sexual relationships between his girlfriend and his male friends'.