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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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, n. 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, v.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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump"; [syn: chubby, embonpoint, plump] n
1: the sound of a sudden heavy fall v
1: drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted" [syn: plummet, plump]
2: set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa" [syn: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump]
3: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" [syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up]
4: give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates" [syn: plump, go] adv
1: straight down especially heavily or abruptly; "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water"

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: Middle English Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily <plumped down in the chair> 2. to favor or decide in favor of someone or something strongly or emphatically — used with for transitive verb 1. to drop, cast, or place suddenly or heavily 2. to give support and favorable publicity to II. noun Date: 15th century a sudden plunge, fall, or blow; also the sound made by a plump III. adverb Date: 1594 1. with a sudden or heavy drop 2. a. straight down b. straight ahead 3. without qualification ; directly <plump out of luck> IV. noun Etymology: Middle English plumpe Date: 15th century chiefly dialect group, flock <a plump of ducks rose at the same time — H. D. Thoreau> V. verb Etymology: ⁶plump Date: 1533 transitive verb to make plump intransitive verb to become plump VI. adjective Etymology: Middle English, dull, blunt, from Middle Dutch plomp Date: 1569 1. having a full rounded usually pleasing form <a plump woman> 2. ample, abundant • plumpish adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. adj. & v. --adj. (esp. of a person or animal or part of the body) having a full rounded shape; fleshy; filled out. --v.tr. & intr. (often foll. by up, out) make or become plump; fatten. Derivatives: plumpish adj. plumply adv. plumpness n. plumpy adj. Etymology: ME plompe f. MDu. plomp blunt, MLG plump, plomp shapeless etc. 2. v., n., adv., & adj. --v. 1 intr. & tr. (often foll. by down) drop or fall abruptly (plumped down on the chair; plumped it on the floor). 2 intr. (foll. by for) decide definitely in favour of (one of two or more possibilities). 3 tr. (often foll. by out) utter abruptly; blurt out. --n. an abrupt plunge; a heavy fall. --adv. colloq. 1 with a sudden or heavy fall. 2 directly, bluntly (I told him plump). --adj. colloq. direct, unqualified (answered with a plump 'no'). Etymology: ME f. MLG plumpen, MDu. plompen: orig. imit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Plump Plump, a. Done or made plump, or suddenly and without reservation; blunt; unreserved; direct; downright. After the plump statement that the author was at Erceldoune and spake with Thomas. --Saintsbury.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Plump Plump, n. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Plump Plump, v. i. [Cf. D. plompen, G. plumpen, Sw. plumpa, Dan. plumpe. See Plump, a.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Plump Plump, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Plumping.] 1. To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Plump Plump (pl[u^]mp), a. [Compar. Plumper (-[~e]r); superl. Plumpest.] [OE. plomp rude, clumsy; akin to D. plomp, G., Dan., & Sw. plump; probably of imitative origin. Cf. Plump, adv.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Plump Plump, adv. [Cf. D. plomp, interj., G. plump, plumps. Cf. Plump, a. & v.] Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly. ``Fall plump.'' --Beau. & Fl.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(plumper, plumpest, plumps, plumping, plumped) 1. You can describe someone or something as plump to indicate that they are rather fat or rounded. Maria was small and plump with a mass of curly hair... ...red pears, ripe peaches and plump nectarines. ADJ • plumpness There was a sturdy plumpness about her hips. N-UNCOUNT 2. If you plump a pillow or cushion, you shake it and hit it gently so that it goes back into a rounded shape. She panics when people pop in unexpectedly, rushing round plumping cushions. VERB: V n • Plump up means the same as plump. 'You need to rest,' she told her reassuringly as she moved to plump up her pillows. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron) 3. If you plump for someone or something, you choose them, often after hesitating or thinking carefully. (mainly BRIT) I think Tessa should plump for Malcolm, her long-suffering admirer. VERB: V for n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Stout, portly, fat, bouncing, chubby, fleshy, round, bonny, burly, in good case, well-rounded. 2. Tumid, swollen, distended, full. 3. Complete, full, downright, direct, unqualified, blunt, unreserved. II. ad. Suddenly, heavily.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Fat, full, fleshy. Plump in the pocket; full in the pocket. To plump; to strike, or shoot. I'll give you a plump in the bread basket, or the victualling office: I'll give you a blow in the stomach. Plump his peepers, or day-lights; give him a blow in the eyes. He pulled out his pops and plumped him; he drew out his pistols and shot him. A plumper; a single vote at an election. Plump also means directly, or exactly; as, it fell plump upon him: it fell directly upon him.

Moby Thesaurus

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