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Plump   /pləmp/   Listen
Plump

adjective
(compar. plumper; superl. plumpest)
1.
Sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure.  Synonyms: chubby, embonpoint.  "Pleasingly plump"
verb
(past & past part. plumped; pres. part. plumping)
1.
Drop sharply.  Synonym: plummet.
2.
Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise.  Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump down, plunk, plunk down.  "He planked himself into the sofa"
3.
Make fat or plump.  Synonyms: fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump out.
4.
Give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number.  Synonym: go.
noun
1.
The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
adverb
1.
Straight down especially heavily or abruptly.  "We dropped the rock plump into the water"



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"Plump" Quotes from Famous Books



... for they were singing and dancing. As the stranger drew near, every young woman in the great camp came running to meet him. They all looked alike, for every one was dressed in glossy black and all were plump and handsome, and they all crowded about him as if to ...
— Wigwam Evenings - Sioux Folk Tales Retold • Charles Alexander Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman
... plump, bouncing person, with a noisy though imperfectly articulate habit of speech, and the prominent hips and bust which composed the "fine figure" of the period, Florrie seemed to float with all the elusive, magic loveliness of a sunbeam. From the shining nimbus of her hair ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... fires, and filled with human activities. Every Border keep is a home: brides are taken there in their blushes; children are born there; gray men, the crucifix held over them, die there. The moon dances on a plump of spears, as the moss-troopers, by secret and desert paths, ride over into England to lift a prey, and the bale-fire on the hill gives the alarm to Cumberland. Men live and marry, and support wife ...
— Dreamthorp - A Book of Essays Written in the Country • Alexander Smith
... came into the room. He was a plump and pink little man, with very bright eyes. His bristly hair stood up straight all over his head, giving it the appearance of a broad, dapple-grey clothes-brush. He appeared to be of the opinion that Nature had given the world the toothbrush as a model ...
— Arsene Lupin • Edgar Jepson
... more bewitching, see, the proud Plump bed bear up, and swelling like a cloud, Tempting the two too modest; can Ye see it brusle like a swan, And you be cold To meet it when it woos and seems to fold The arms to hug it? Throw, throw Yourselves into the mighty overflow Of that white ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick


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