PLUMP
\plˈʌmp], \plˈʌmp], \p_l_ˈʌ_m_p]\
Definitions of PLUMP
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies"; "pleasingly plump"
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make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
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the sound of a sudden heavy fall
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straight down especially heavily or abruptly; "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water"
By Princeton University
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euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies"; "pleasingly plump"
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make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
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the sound of a sudden heavy fall
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(informal) straight down especially heavily or abruptly; "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Done or made plump, or suddenly and without reservation; blunt; unreserved; direct; downright.
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Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.
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A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.
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To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
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To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
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To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
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To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
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To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
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Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
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To make plump; to fill (out) or support; - often with up.
By Oddity Software
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Done or made plump, or suddenly and without reservation; blunt; unreserved; direct; downright.
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Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.
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A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.
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To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
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To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
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To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
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To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
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To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
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Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
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To make plump; to fill (out) or support; - often with up.
By Noah Webster.
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Well filled or rounded out; fat; blunt; direct; as, a plump contradiction.
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With a sudden or heavy drop; as, he fell plump into the water; bluntly.
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To fall or sink down heavily; as, to plump down into a chair; to grow round or full; as, her cheeks plumped out.
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To cause to fall heavily; to cause to become round.
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Plumpness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Plumpness.
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Falling straight downward (like lead).
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Downright: unqualified.
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To fall or sink suddenly.
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To cause to sink suddenly.
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PLUMPLY.
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Fat and rounded: sleek: in good condition.
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To give in the lump or undivided (as a vote to one only).
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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