Hi Alexander -- on Sep 18 2018 at 21:35, you wrote:

AK> That sentence was approximately like this:

AK> "A woman tried to calm down a girl, and she plonked a cakey kiss on
AK> her forehead."

AK> Can it be said in some more usual words? ;-) What is "plonking a
AK> 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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