Lexicographical Neighbors of Plumpen
Literary usage of Plumpen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geflügelte Worte: Der Citatenschatz des deutschen Volkes by Georg Büchmann (1880)
"Der bekannte Volksreim; Es ist ein Jude in's Wasser gefallen, ich hab' ihn hören
plumpen, (Und war' ich nicht dazu gekommen, So wäre er ertrunken) ist die ..."
2. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"(F.-Teut.) ME pumpe.-¥. pompe.— G. pumpe, also plumpe, which is likewise an
imitative form. Cf. prov. G. plumpen, to pump. ß. ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"The sound of something heavy falling into the water is represented in G. by the
syllable plump, whence plumpen, to splash, to beat the water with a pole in ..."
4. Contested Etymologies in the Dictionary of the Rev. W. W. Skeat by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1882)
"... of the G. plumpen, to plump into water, to splash. Now the sound of a final
nips, ms, is easily confounded with that of nts, nds, ns, as is seen in Sw. ..."
5. Geflügelte Worte: Der Citatenschatz des deutschen Volkes by Georg Büchmann (1880)
"Der bekannte Volksreim; Es ist ein Jude in's Wasser gefallen, ich hab' ihn hören
plumpen, (Und war' ich nicht dazu gekommen, So wäre er ertrunken) ist die ..."
6. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"(F.-Teut.) ME pumpe.-¥. pompe.— G. pumpe, also plumpe, which is likewise an
imitative form. Cf. prov. G. plumpen, to pump. ß. ..."
7. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"The sound of something heavy falling into the water is represented in G. by the
syllable plump, whence plumpen, to splash, to beat the water with a pole in ..."
8. Contested Etymologies in the Dictionary of the Rev. W. W. Skeat by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1882)
"... of the G. plumpen, to plump into water, to splash. Now the sound of a final
nips, ms, is easily confounded with that of nts, nds, ns, as is seen in Sw. ..."
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