Plump
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plump¹
- /plʌmp/
Rhymes with -ʌmp
Where it comes from
From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump. Cognate with Saterland Frisian plump (“plump”).
adjective plumper · more plump · plumpest · most plump
- Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight. a plump baby; plump cheeks
- Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright. 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?"
- 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.
verb plumps · plumping · plumped
- To grow plump; to swell out. Her cheeks have plumped.
- To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water
- To give a plumper (kind of vote).
- To give (a vote), as a plumper.
- To favor or decide in favor of. 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.
plump²
- /plʌmp/
Rhymes with -ʌmp
Where it comes from
From Middle English plumpen, akin to Middle Dutch plompen, Middle Low German plumpen, German plumpsen.
verb plumps · plumping · plumped
- To cast or let drop (something) all at once, suddenly and heavily. to plump a stone into water
- To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once. September 24, 1712, The Spectator No. 492, letter from a prude Dulcissa plumps into a chair.
adverb
- 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?
noun plumps
- 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.
plump³
- /plʌmp/
Rhymes with -ʌmp
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English plump.
noun plumps
- A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd. a plump of trees, fowls, or spears
- A group of ducks or geese migrating, or sometimes other groups of birds. What Descartes called res cogitans is not a defined res but a network, a swarm, a cloud, much like a plump of geese flying south or ants foraging around their woodlands.
Plump⁴
Where it comes from
Borrowed from North German Plump, a nickname from plump (“crude, clumsy”).
proper noun Plumps
- A surname from German.
