plump
Meanings
Plural: plumps
Noun
- the sound of a sudden heavy fall
- The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
- A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
- A group of geese flying close together.
Verb
- drop sharply
- set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
- make fat or plump
- "We will plump out that poor starving child"
- give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
- "I plumped for the losing candidates"
- To grow plump; to swell out.
- To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
- To give a plumper (kind of vote).
- To give (a vote), as a plumper.
- To favor or decide in favor of.
- To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
- To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
Adjective Satellite
- sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure
- "pleasingly plump"
Adverb
- straight down especially heavily or abruptly
- "the anchor fell plump into the sea"
- "we dropped the rock plump into the water"
Adj
- Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
- Fat.
- Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
Adv
- Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump. Cognate with Saterland Frisian plump (“plump”).
Synonyms
chubby, embonpoint, fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, flump, go, plank, plonk, plop, plummet, plump down, plump out, plunk, plunk down, slump
Scrabble Score: 11
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