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Plump
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- 1 Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
"a plump baby; plump cheeks"
- 2 Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
"After the plump statement that the author was at Erceldoune and spake with Thomas."
- 3 Of a wine: giving the sensation of filling the mouth.
"A plump wine, with an abundance of plum and berry characteristics and soft, round tannins. Easy to drink; ready on release."
- 1 sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure wordnet
- 1 Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
"I suppose then, that going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy squall is the height of a whaleman’s discretion?"
- 1 straight down especially heavily or abruptly wordnet
- 1 A surname from German.
- 1 The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
"As she beheld her, poor Mrs. Mack's heart fluttered up to her mouth, and then dropped with a dreadful plump, into the pit of her stomach."
- 2 A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd. obsolete
"a plump of trees, fowls, or spears"
- 3 the sound of a sudden heavy fall wordnet
- 4 A group of geese flying close together.
- 1 To grow plump; to swell out. intransitive
"Her cheeks have plumped."
- 2 To cast or let drop (something) all at once, suddenly and heavily. transitive
"to plump a stone into water"
- 3 give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number wordnet
- 4 To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. transitive
"to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water"
- 5 To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once. intransitive
"September 24, 1712, The Spectator No. 492, letter from a prude Dulcissa plumps into a chair."
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- 6 make fat or plump wordnet
- 7 To give a plumper (kind of vote). intransitive
- 8 set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise wordnet
- 9 To give (a vote), as a plumper. transitive
- 10 drop sharply wordnet
- 11 To favor or decide in favor of. intransitive
"A recent poll by the New York Times found that although most Brazilians plump for arch-rival Argentina as the team they most want to lose, the second-biggest group want Brazil itself to stumble."
Etymology
From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump. Cognate with Saterland Frisian plump (“plump”).
From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump. Cognate with Saterland Frisian plump (“plump”).
From Middle English plumpen, akin to Middle Dutch plompen, Middle Low German plumpen, German plumpsen.
From Middle English plumpen, akin to Middle Dutch plompen, Middle Low German plumpen, German plumpsen.
From Middle English plumpen, akin to Middle Dutch plompen, Middle Low German plumpen, German plumpsen.
From Middle English plump.
Borrowed from North German Plump, a nickname from plump (“crude, clumsy”).
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