adj
Meaning 1
Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a plump baby; plump cheeks
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Standard Lemma guide
plump
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Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
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adj
Meaning 3
Of a wine: giving the sensation of filling the mouth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: beverages, food, lifestyle, oenology, wine
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adv
Meaning 4
Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
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name
Meaning 5
A surname from German.
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noun
Meaning 6
The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
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noun
Meaning 7
A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- a plump of trees, fowls, or spears
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noun
Meaning 8
A group of geese flying close together.
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verb
Meaning 9
To grow plump; to swell out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- Her cheeks have plumped.
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verb
Meaning 10
To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water
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verb
Meaning 11
To give a plumper (kind of vote).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 12
To give (a vote), as a plumper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 13
To favor or decide in favor of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 14
To cast or let drop (something) all at once, suddenly and heavily.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to plump a stone into water
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verb
Meaning 15
To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- September 24, 1712, The Spectator No. 492, letter from a prude Dulcissa plumps into a chair.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slump
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 16
sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure;
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a chubby child
- pleasingly plump
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: chubby, embonpoint
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 17
straight down especially heavily or abruptly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the anchor fell plump into the sea
- we dropped the rock plump into the water
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noun
Meaning 18
the sound of a sudden heavy fall
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: noise
verb
Meaning 19
give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I plumped for the losing candidates
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: go
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: choose, take, select, pick out
verb
Meaning 20
make fat or plump
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- We will plump out that poor starving child
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
verb
Meaning 21
set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He planked the money on the table
- He planked himself into the sofa
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: set down, put down, place down
verb
Meaning 22
drop sharply
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The stock market plummeted
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Synonyms: plummet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: drop
History
Etymology
From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump. Cognate with Saterland Frisian plump (“plump”).
From Middle English plumpen, akin to Middle Dutch plompen, Middle Low German plumpen, German plumpsen.
Borrowed from North German Plump, a nickname from plump (“crude, clumsy”).
Inherited from Middle English plump.
Across languages
Translations
81 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: سمين — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Armenian: թմբլիկ (tʻmblik) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Azerbaijani: çağ — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Azerbaijani: dolğun — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Azerbaijani: ətli-canlı — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Azerbaijani: koppuş — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Azerbaijani: toppuş — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Azerbaijani: yoğun — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Bulgarian: закръглен (zakrǎglen) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Bulgarian: пухкав (puhkav) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Catalan: grassonet — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Chinese Mandarin: 豐滿 /丰满 (fēngmǎn) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Chinese Mandarin: 肥美 (féiměi) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Czech: zavalitý — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Czech: zakulacený — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Czech: boubelatý — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Czech: baculatý — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Czech: buclatý — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Esperanto: dika — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Finnish: pyylevä — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Finnish: pullea — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Finnish: pulska — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- French: dodu — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- French: potelé — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- French: rebondi — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- French: replet — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Galician: repoludo — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- German: mollig — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- German: pummelig — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Greek: αφράτος (afrátos) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Greek: στρουμπουλός (stroumpoulós) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Hindi: गुदगुदा (gudgudā) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Hungarian: molett — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Icelandic: bústinn — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Irish: méith — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Italian: cicciottello — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Italian: robusto — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Latin: pinguis — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Māori: makune — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Māori: māretireti — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Norman: potelé — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Persian: تپل (topol) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Portuguese: rechonchudo — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Russian: пу́хлый (púxlyj) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Russian: пу́хленький (púxlenʹkij) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Russian: по́лный (pólnyj) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Russian: по́лненький (pólnenʹkij) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Russian: то́лстый (tólstyj) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Russian: то́лстенький (tólstenʹkij) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Russian: окру́глый (okrúglyj) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Telugu: బలిసిన (balisina) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Thai: ท้วม (túuam) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Thai: อวบ (ùuap) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Turkish: semiz — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Turkish: etli butlu — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Turkish: şişman — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Turkish: besili — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Turkish: yağlı — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Turkish: etli — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Turkish: dolgun — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Turkish: balıketli — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Turkish: etine dolgun — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Ottoman Turkish: سمیز (semiz) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Ottoman Turkish: شیشمان (şişman) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Uyghur: ئەتلىك (etlik) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Uyghur: سېمىز (sëmiz) — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Welsh: llond ei groen — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Welsh: llond ei chroen — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Welsh: llond eu croen — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Welsh: cnawdol — Having a full and rounded shape, chubby
- Czech: prudce — suddenly or heavily
- Czech: ztěžka — suddenly or heavily
- Czech: žuchnutí — sound of heavy fall
- Czech: zakulatit se — To grow plump
- Czech: zbaculatět — To grow plump
- Czech: nakynout — To grow plump
- Bulgarian: пльосвам се (pljosvam se) — to drop or fall suddenly or heavily
- Czech: žuchnout — to drop or fall suddenly or heavily
- Czech: svalit se — to drop or fall suddenly or heavily
- Czech: žuchnout sebou — to drop or fall suddenly or heavily
- Czech: praštit sebou — to drop or fall suddenly or heavily