plop

«plop» in Mova's school dictionary: The soft sound of something small dropping into water… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a plop, plops); verb (plop, plops, plopped, plopping); adverb (plop)

meaning for a pupil

1) The soft sound of something small dropping into water, like a pebble or a frog. tree →

2) (verb) To fall or drop with this sound. tree →

3) (verb, informal) To sit down or put something down heavily and carelessly: «She plopped down on the sofa.» tree →

sense in the lessons

Plop is an onomatopoeic word — it sounds like the noise it names (like splash, drip, buzz). In The Wind in the Willows, the river bank is full of small sounds like the plop of a water vole or a fish. In poetry and writing lessons it is used for sound effects. Phrase: «plop down».

examples

• The frog jumped into the pond with a plop. tree →
• A big raindrop plopped onto my nose. tree →
• He plopped his bag on the floor. tree →
• Something went plop in the dark river. tree →
• She plopped down on the beanbag. tree →
• Two ice cubes plopped into my drink. tree →
• We heard a plop as the water vole dived. tree →

note

Past plopped, -ing plopping (double p). It is an onomatopoeia. Compare: plop (small and soft), splash (bigger), sploosh (informal, big).

In the corpora

• A large tear rolls down each of Toad's cheeks, plop! plop!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «plop» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.