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plonker

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English

Etymology

From plonk +‎ -er.

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

pull someone's plonker

Translations

fool

Finnish: törppö (fi)
French: imbécile (fr) m
German: Dummkopf (de) m, Trottel (de) m
Italian: stupido (it) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tulling (no) m, dåsemikkel (no) m, dumrian (no) m
Russian: дурачок (ru) m (duračok)

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'.

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