pling

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English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

pling (plural plings)

  1. (computing, dated) The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
    • 1989, John Littler, John Maher, Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing:
      This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.
    • 1994, C.P. Brown, “HAhAhA”, in comp.sys.acorn.advocacy (Usenet):
      IMO, prefixing a directory name with a pling so that a program within it is run when you double click on it is a rather untidy way to do things.
    • 1994, Stewart Palmer, Mark Moir, Developing CD-ROM products for Acorn machines:
      Make sure that you consider ISO 9660 restrictions on the use of characters in disc, directory and file names. Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal characters.
    • 1996, Tim Wiser, “Pling thing revisited”, in comp.sys.acorn.apps (Usenet):
      Acorn Computing used to be big offenders when it came to referring to applications by their pling-inclusive names. They loved it. Unfortunately it made their articles sound silly (for want of a better adjective).
Usage notes
  • Associated with Acorn Computers, e.g. used in the 1980 manual for the Acorn Atom, Atomic Theory and Practice by David Johnson-Davies.
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Etymology 2

Imitative.

Noun

pling (plural plings)

  1. A soft bell-like sound; ding.

Verb

pling (third-person singular simple present plings, present participle plinging, simple past and past participle plinged)

  1. (intransitive) To produce a soft bell-like sound.
    • 2019, Philip Gwynne Jones, The Venetian Masquerade:
      The computer plinged to announce the arrival of another email, this time from Isotta.

Swedish

Noun

pling n

  1. a ding or a ringing sound (often with a high and clear tone)

Declension

Declension of pling 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pling plinget pling plingen
Genitive plings plingets plings plingens

Noun

pling c

  1. (colloquial, in "slå (någon) en pling") to call (someone, on the phone)
    Slå mig en pling när ni är färdiga
    Call me when you're done

Declension

Declension of pling 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative pling plingen — —
Genitive plings plingens — —

Interjection

pling

  1. represents a ding or a ringing sound (often with a high and clear tone)
    Pling! Maten i mikron var klar.
    Ding! The food in the microwave was ready.

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West Flemish

Noun

pling n (plural plings)

  1. sports field
  2. square
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