plump
Part of speech: adj
verb
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
Etymology: From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump. Cognate with Saterland Frisian plump (“plump”).
Inflected forms:
form: plumper
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more plump
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: plumpest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most plump
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: plumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plumped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: plumps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
pos: adj
examples: a plump baby; plump cheeks
The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.
My ideal is to be idle and to love a plump girl.
He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs. He breathed stertorously, and half the drops which glimmered on his rotund face were not rain but sweat.
gloss: Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
pos: adj
examples: We are averse to plump queries, but we are going to ask our readers a plain, simple question Did you ever see a paper y'clept "The Yankee Blade?"
After the plump statement that the author was at Erceldoune and spake with Thomas.
I've said so haven't I? Plump and plain.
gloss: Of a wine: giving the sensation of filling the mouth.
pos: adj
examples: A plump wine, with an abundance of plum and berry characteristics and soft, round tannins. Easy to drink; ready on release.
gloss: To grow plump; to swell out.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Her cheeks have plumped.
gloss: To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water
to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles
Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction […] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article […]
gloss: To give a plumper (kind of vote).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To give (a vote), as a plumper.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To favor or decide in favor of.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
pos: adv
examples: 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?
gloss: The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Derived words: overplump
plumpage
plumpie
plumping
plumpish
plumpitude
plumpkin
plumply
plumpness
plumptious
plumptitude
plumpy
unplump
plump for
plump up
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