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Definition of Plump
1. Adverb. Straight down especially heavily or abruptly. "We dropped the rock plump into the water"
2. Adjective. Sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure. "Pleasingly plump"
3. Verb. Drop sharply. "The stock market is going to plump "; "The stock market plummeted"
4. Noun. The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
5. Verb. Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise. "There plump some children in the rocking chair"; "He planked himself into the sofa"
Generic synonyms: Place Down, Put Down, Set Down
Derivative terms: Plonk
6. Verb. Make fat or plump. "We will plump out that poor starving child"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Entails: Feed, Give
Derivative terms: Fat, Fat
7. Verb. Give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number. "I plumped for the losing candidates"
Definition of Plump
1. a. Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.
2. n. A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.
3. v. i. To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
4. v. t. To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.
5. adv. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
6. a. Done or made plump, or suddenly and without reservation; blunt; unreserved; direct; downright.
Definition of Plump
1. Verb. (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To give a plumper. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper. ¹
7. Adjective. Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight. ¹
8. Adjective. Fat. ¹
9. Adverb. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly. ¹
10. Noun. (obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plump
1. well-rounded and full in form [adj PLUMPER, PLUMPEST] / to make plump [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: plump
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plump
Literary usage of Plump
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Johnson also gives plump, verb, ' to fall like a stone into the water ... The word
tends also to confusion with plump (i), from which I believe it to be ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"Of medium size, distinctly quadrangular with very lumpy surface; shell very thin
and papery; kernel deeply corrugated but plump and of good quality. ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"Notwithstanding the close resemblance, the word is distinct from plump, ... plump.
The radical image is the sound made by a compact body falling into the ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"plump, adj. A plump shower, a heavy shower that falls straight down. This is also
called a plump; as, a thunder plump, the heavy shower that often succeeds ..."
5. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1806)
"To plump, plump, vn To fall like a stone into the water ; to be A pull, ...
plumpER, plump'ur. s. (99) Something worn in the mouth to swell out the cheeks. ..."
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