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Definition of 'plump'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) plump
well filled out or rounded in form; chubby.

2. (v.i.) plump
to become plump (often fol. by up or out).

3. (v.t.) plump
to make plump (often fol. by up or out):
to plump up the pillows.

4. (v.i.) plump
to drop or fall heavily or suddenly (often fol. by down):
to plump down on the sofa.

5. (v.t.) plump
to drop or throw heavily or suddenly (often fol. by down).

6.  plump
plump for, to support enthusiastically:
to plump for the home team.

7. (n.) plump
a heavy or sudden fall.

8.  plump
the sound of such a fall.

9. (adv.) plump
with a heavy or sudden fall or drop.

10.  plump
directly or bluntly.

11.  plump
straight down.

12.  plump
with direct impact.

13. (adj.) plump
direct; downright; blunt.

14. (Chiefly Brit. Dial.) plump
a group or cluster.

15.  plump
a flock:
a plump of ducks.

Etymology: (1680–90)

Definition of 'plump'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) plump
the sound of a sudden heavy fall

2. (verb) chubby, embonpoint, plump
sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure
"a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump";

3. (verb) plummet, plump
drop sharply
"The stock market plummeted"

4. (verb) plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump
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"

5. (verb) fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
make fat or plump
"We will plump out that poor starving child"

6. (adverb) plump, go
give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
"I plumped for the losing candidates"

7. (adverb) plump
straight down especially heavily or abruptly
"the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water"

Definition of 'plump'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) plump
(of a person) slightly fat
a plump little girl

2. plump
rounded
a plump juicy strawberry

Definition of 'plump'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) plump
to grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped

2. (adj) plump
to drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once

3. (adj) plump
to give a plumper. See Plumper, 2

4. (adverb) plump
well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks

5. (noun) plump
a knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears

6. plump
directly; suddenly; perpendicularly

7. (verb) plump
to make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up

8. (verb) plump
to cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water

9. (verb) plump
to give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2

Translation of 'plump'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: pleasantly fat and rounded; well filled out plump cheeks.
Afrikaans: mollig	Arabic: مُمْتَلئ، سَمين	Bulgarian: закръглен
Brazilian: rechonchudo	Czech: buclatý	German: prall
Danish: buttet; fyldig	Greek: παχουλός, στρουμπουλός	Spanish: relleno, regordete, recho
Estonian: ümar	Farsi: چاق و چله؛ پر	Finnish: pullea
French: grassouillet	Hebrew: שְׁמַנמַן	Hindi: मोटा, गोल-मटोल
Croatian: bucmast, punašan	Hungarian: kövér(kés)	Indonesian: montok
Icelandic: þybbinn, bústinn	Italian: grassottello	Japanese: 丸々とした
Korean: 통통한, 풍만한	Lithuanian: putlus, apvalus, apkūnus	Latvian: apaļīgs; tukls
Malay: montel	Dutch: rond, mollig	Norwegian: god og rund, småfet
Polish: pulchny	Persian: چاق از ناحيه روى يا كومه	Pashto: هغه څوك چې مخ يي چاق وې
Portuguese: rechonchudo	Romanian: bucălat	Russian: полный; пухлый
Slovak: bucľatý, oblý	Slovenian: rejen	Serbian: punačak
Swedish: fyllig, knubbig, trind, r	Thai: เจ้าเนื้อ	Turkish: tombul
Taiwanese: 豐滿的	Ukrainian: повний; пухкий	Urdu: فربہ، گداز
Vietnamese: bụ bẫm	Chinese: 丰满的
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