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plump

Pronunciation: /plʌmp/

The English word “plump” has 14 meanings listed here.

adjective

Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
Of a wine: giving the sensation of filling the mouth.

verb

To grow plump; to swell out.
To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
To give a plumper (kind of vote).
To give (a vote), as a plumper.
To favor or decide in favor of.
To cast or let drop (something) all at once, suddenly and heavily.
To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.

adverb

Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

noun

The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
A group of ducks or geese migrating, or sometimes other groups of birds.

Etymology

From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump. Cognate with Saterland Frisian plump (“plump”).

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