Hi Alexander -- on Sep 18 2018 at 21:35, you wrote:
That sentence was approximately like this:
"A woman tried to calm down a girl, and she plonked a cakey kiss on
her forehead."
Can it be said in some more usual words? ;-) What is "plonking a
cakey kiss"?
Very British slang. Plonked would suggest "heavily or carelessly" (Oxford Dictionary) and cakey is slang for over-sweet in demeanor. So in more conventional English we might say "she sloppily kissed her forehead". But I think the slang version gives more flavour of British working class.
Cheers... Dallas
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