Plunk vs. Plank — What's the Difference?

Plunk is a Belgian comic series created by Luc Cromheecke and Laurent Letzer, and published by Dupuis. So far three albums have appeared.

A piece of lumber cut thicker than a board.

Play a keyboard or plucked stringed instrument in an inexpressive way

Such pieces of lumber considered as a group; planking.

Hit (someone) abruptly

A foundation; a support.

Set down heavily or abruptly

One of the articles of a political platform.

The sound made by abruptly plucking a string of a stringed instrument

To furnish or cover with planks

A heavy blow.

To bake or broil and serve (fish or meat) on a plank

To throw or place heavily or abruptly

To put or set down emphatically or with force.

To strum or pluck (a stringed instrument).

A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.

To drop or fall abruptly or heavily; plump

(figurative) A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.

To emit a hollow twanging sound.

Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.

(Informal) A heavy blow or stroke.

A stupid person, idiot.

A short hollow twanging sound.

That which supports or upholds.

With a short hollow thud.

(transitive) To cover something with planking.

Exactly; precisely

(transitive) To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber.

(transitive) To drop or throw something heavily onto or into something else, so that it makes a dull sound.

To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.

(intransitive) To land suddenly or heavily; to plump down.

(transitive) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.

To intentionally hit the batter with a pitch.

To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.

To croak.

(intransitive) To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.

To pluck and quickly release (a musical string).

A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.

To be a truant from (school).

Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer.

The dull thud of something landing on a surface.

One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform.

A large sum of money.

To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship.

A dollar.

To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager.

To pluck and release quickly (a musical string); to twang.

To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.

To throw, push, drive heavily, plumply, or suddenly; as, to plunk down a dollar; also, to hit or strike.

To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.

To be a truant from (school).

A stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes

To make a quick, hollow, metallic, or harsh sound, as by pulling hard on a taut string and quickly releasing it; of a raven, to croak.

An endorsed policy in the platform of a political party

To drop or sink down suddenly or heavily; to plump.

Cover with planks;

To play truant, or "hooky".

Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise;

Act or sound of plunking.

Cook and serve on a plank;

A large sum of money.

A hollow twanging sound

(baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly

Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise;

Drop steeply;

Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion;

With a short hollow thud;