plummy (redirected from plummier)

plum·my  (plm)

adj. plum·mi·er, plum·mi·est

1.

a. Filled with plums.

b. Smelling or tasting of plums.

2. Choice; desirable: a plummy leading role; a plummy job.

3. Exceedingly or affectedly mellow and rich: a plummy voice.

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plummy

Adjective

[-mier, -miest]

1. of, full of, or like plums: a red wine full of ripe plummy fruit

2. Brit informal (of a voice) deep, rich, and usually upper-class in manner: his plummy condescending voice

3. Brit informal desirable: they lived plummy lives in the hills of Tuscany

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	plummy - very desirable; "a plummy leading role" colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech desirable - worth having or seeking or achieving; "a desirable job"; "computer with many desirable features"; "a desirable outcome"
	2.	plummy - (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich; "the radio announcer's plummy voice" affected, unnatural - speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

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plummy

adjective (of a voice) deep, posh (informal), chiefly Brit. refined, upper-class, fruity, resonant