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Webster 1913 Edition


Plump

Plump

(plŭmp)
,
Adj.
[
Com
par.
Plumper
(plŭmp′ẽr)
;
sup
erl.
Plumpest
.]
[OE.
plomp
rude, clumsy; akin to D.
plomp
, G., Dan., & Sw.
plump
; probably of imitative origin. Cf.
Plump
,
adv.
]
1.
Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat;
as, a
plump
baby;
plump
cheeks.
Shak.
The god of wine did his
plump
clusters bring.
T. Carew.

Plump

,
Noun.
A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock;
as, a
plump
of trees, fowls, or spears
.
[Obs.]
To visit islands and the
plumps
of men.
Chapman.

Plump

,
Verb.
I.
[Cf. D.
plompen
, G.
plumpen
, Sw.
plumpa
, Dan.
plumpe
. See
Plump
,
Adj.
]
1.
To grow plump; to swell out;
as, her cheeks have
plumped
.
2.
To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
“Dulcissa plumps into a chair.”
Spectator.
3.
To
give
a plumper. See
Plumper
, 2.

Plump

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Plumped
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Plumping
.]
1.
To make plump; to fill (out) or support; – often with up.
To
plump
up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles.
Fuller.
2.
To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily;
as, to
plump
a stone into water
.
3.
To give (a vote), as a plumper. See
Plumper
, 2.

Plump

,
adv.
[Cf. D.
plomp
, interj., G.
plump
,
plumps
. Cf.
Plump
,
Adj.
&
Verb.
]
Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
“Fall plump.”
Beau. & Fl.

Webster 1828 Edition


Plump

PLUMP

, a.
1.
Full; swelled with fat or flesh to the full size; fat; having a full skin; round; as a plump boy; a plump habit of body.
The famish'd crow grows plump and round.
2.
Full; blunt; unreserved; unqualified; as a plump lie.

PLUMP

,
Noun.
A knot; a cluster; a clump; a number of things closely united or standing together; as a plump of trees; a plump of fowls; a plump of horsemen.
[This word is not now used in this sense, but the use of it formerly, is good evidence that plump is clump, with a different prefix, and both are radically one word with lump. Plumb, L. plumbum, is the same word, a lump or mass.

PLUMP

,
Verb.
T.
[from the adjective.] To swell; to extend to fullness; to dilate; to fatten.
The particles of air expanding themselves, plump out the sides of the bladder.
A wedding at our house will plump me up with good cheer.

PLUMP

, v.i.
1.
To plunge or fall like a heavy mass or lump of dead matter; to fall suddenly or at once.
2.
To enlarge to fullness; to be swelled.

PLUMP

,
adv.
Suddenly; heavily; at once, or with a sudden heavy fall.

Definition 2024


plump

plump

English

Verb

plump (third-person singular simple present plumps, present participle plumping, simple past and past participle plumped)

  1. (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.
    Her cheeks have plumped.
  2. (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
    • Spectator
      Dulcissa plumps into a chair.
  3. (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
    to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water
    • Fuller
      to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles
  4. (transitive) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
    to plump a stone into water
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
      Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction [] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article []
  5. (intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
  6. (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
  7. (used with for) To favor or decide in favor of something.
    "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." source: http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21600983-brazilian-workers-are-gloriously-unproductive-economy-grow-they-must-snap-out

Adjective

plump (comparative plumper or more plump, superlative plumpest or most plump)

  1. Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
    a plump baby; plump cheeks
    • Thomas Carew (1595-1640)
      The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.
    • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 23, in Crime out of Mind:
      He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs. He breathed stertorously, and half the drops which glimmered on his rotund face were not rain but sweat.
  2. Fat.
  3. (dated) Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
    • Saintsbury
      After the plump statement that the author was at Erceldoune and spake with Thomas.

Synonyms

  • See also Wikisaurus:obese

Antonyms

  • See also Wikisaurus:scrawny

Translations

Adverb

plump

  1. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

Noun

plump (plural plumps)

  1. (obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
    a plump of trees, fowls, or spears
    To visit islands and the plumps of men. Chapman.

References

  • plump in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

plump (comparative plumper, superlative am plumpesten)

  1. crude, clumsy

Declension