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plump¹ (pl

mp)

adj. plump·er, plump·est

1. Well-rounded and full in form; chubby. See Synonyms at fat.

2. Abundant; ample: a plump reward.

v. plumped, plump·ing, plumps

v.tr.

To make well-rounded or full in form: plumped up the pillows.

v.intr.

To become well-rounded, chubby, or full in form: The baby plumped out at three months.

[Middle English, dull, probably from Middle Low German plomp, blunt, thick.]

plumpish adj.

plumply adv.

plumpness n.

plump² (pl

mp)

v. plumped, plump·ing, plumps

v.intr.

1. To drop abruptly or heavily: plumped into the easy chair.

2. To give full support or praise: plumped for the candidate throughout the state.

v.tr.

To throw down or drop (something) abruptly or heavily: plumped the books onto the table.

1. A heavy or abrupt fall or collision.

2. The sound of a heavy fall or collision.

adj.

Blunt; direct.

adv.

1. With a heavy or abrupt drop: The anchor fell plump into the sea.

a. With a full or sudden impact: walked plump into the pole.

b. Directly: ran plump into an old friend.

3. Without qualification; bluntly: spoke out plump for the tax bill.

[Middle English plumpen, to immerse quickly, perhaps from Middle Low German, probably of imitative origin.]

plump¹

adj

1. well filled out or rounded; fleshy or chubby a plump turkey

2. bulging, as with contents; full a plump wallet

3. (of amounts of money) generous; ample a plump cheque

(often foll by up or out) to make or become plump to plump up a pillow

[C15 (meaning: dull, rude), C16 (in current senses): perhaps from Middle Dutch plomp dull, blunt]

plumply adv

plumpness n

plump²

1. (often foll by down, into, etc.) to drop or fall suddenly and heavily to plump down on the sofa

2. (intr; foll by for) to give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number

a heavy abrupt fall or the sound of this

adv

1. suddenly or heavily he ran plump into the old lady

2. straight down; directly the helicopter landed plump in the middle of the field

adj & adv

in a blunt, direct, or decisive manner

[probably of imitative origin; compare Middle Low German plumpen, Middle Dutch plompen]

plump³

Archaic or dialect a group of people, animals, or things; troop; cluster

[of uncertain origin]

Plump a knot; a tuft; a cluster; a number joined together in one mass—Johnson, 1755; a compact body of persons, animals, or things. See also bunch, clump, company, flock, etc.

Examples: plump of coleworts; of conjectures and great presumptions, 1553; of green corn, 1575; of deeps (the oceans), 1535; of ducks, 1854; of folk, 1489; of hazelnuts; of moorhens; of pains, 1568; of resolution, 1659; of seals, 1591; of spearmen, 1548; of trees, 1615; of orchard trees, 1868; of whales, 1834; of wild fowl, 1697; of wood (a copse), 1470; of yachts (at anchor), 1893.

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Noun	1.	plump - the sound of a sudden heavy fall noise - sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"
Verb	1.	plump - drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted" plummet drop - to fall vertically; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets"
	2.	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" plonk, plunk down, plump down, plunk, flump, plank, plop place down, put down, set down - cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place; "set down your bags here"
	3.	plump - make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, flesh out, plump out, fill out alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
	4.	plump - give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates" go choose, pick out, select, take - pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"
Adj.	1.	plump - sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump"; chubby, embonpoint fat - having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
Adv.	1.	plump - straight down especially heavily or abruptly; "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water" colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

plump¹

adjective chubby, fat, stout, full, round, burly, obese, fleshy, beefy (informal), tubby, portly, buxom, dumpy, roly-poly, well-covered, rotund, podgy, corpulent, well-upholstered (informal) Maria was small and plump with a mass of curly hair.
thin, lean, slim, slender, skinny, bony, anorexic, lanky, emaciated, scrawny, sylphlike

plump²

verb flop, fall, drop, sink, dump, slump Breathlessly, she plumped down next to Katrina.

plump for something or someone choose, favour, go for, back, support, opt for, side with, come down in favour of In the end, we plumped for an endowment mortgage.

Translations

plump¹ [plʌmp]

A. ADJ (plumper (compar) (plumpest (superl))) [person] → relleno, rollizo; [face] → llenito, rollizo; [baby] → rechoncho; [animal] → gordo; [fruit, vegetable] → gordo, orondo

B. VT (= fatten) → engordar; (= swell) → hinchar

plump up VT + ADV (= cause to swell) → hinchar; [+ pillow] → mullir

plump² [plʌmp]

A. ADV → de lleno
it fell plump on the roof → cayó de lleno en el techo
to run plump into sb → dar de cara con algn

B. VI (= fall) → caer pesadamente, dejarse caer pesadamente

plump down

A. VT + ADV → dejar caer
to plump o.s. down → desplomarse, dejarse caer pesadamente

B. VI + ADV to plump down on to a chair → desplomarse en un sillón, dejarse caer pesadamente en un sillón

plump for VI + PREP (= choose) → decidirse por, optar por; (= vote for) → votar por

plump [ˈplʌmp]

adj

[person, legs, hands] → dodu(e)

[fruit] → charnu(e); [chicken] → dodu(e); [cushion] → rebondi(e)

plump down

vi [person] (= sit down heavily) → se laisser tomber

vt sep
to plump o.s. down → se laisser tomber

plump for

vt fus (= choose) → se décider pour

plump up

vt sep [+ cushion] → battre (pour lui redonner forme)

plump

adj (+er)

→ rundlich, mollig, pummelig; legs etc → stämmig; face → rundlich, pausbäckig, voll; chicken etc → gut genährt, fleischig; fish → fett; fruit → prall; plump cheeks → Pausbacken pl

phrasing, reply → direkt, unverblümt

adv to fall plump onto something → mit einem Plumps auf etw (acc) → fallen

(= drop) → fallen lassen; (= throw) → werfen; (angrily, noisily) → knallen (inf); to plump something down → etw hinfallen lassen/hinwerfen/hinknallen (inf); she plumped herself down in the armchair → sie ließ sich in den Sessel fallen; he had plumped himself in the best chair → er hatte sich im besten Sessel breitgemacht (inf)

(also plump up) cushion, pillow → aufschütteln

vi (= fall) → fallen; to plump down onto a chair → auf einen Stuhl fallen or plumpsen (inf)

plump [plʌmp] adj (-er (comp) (-est (superl))) (person, chicken) → bene in carne; (cheeks, face) → paffuto/a; (wallet, cushion) → (bello/a) gonfio/a; (arms, child, hands) → grassoccio/a, grassottello/a

plump down

1. vt + adv → lasciar cadere di peso
to plump sth (down) on → lasciar cadere qc di peso su

2. vi + adv → lasciarsi cadere di peso or di schianto

plump for vi + prep (fam) → decidersi per

plump up vt + adv (cushion) → sprimacciare

plump down

1. vt + adv → lasciar cadere di peso
to plump sth (down) on → lasciar cadere qc di peso su

2. vi + adv → lasciarsi cadere di peso or di schianto

plump for vi + prep (fam) → decidersi per

plump up vt + adv (cushion) → sprimacciare

plump [plamp]

to choose or decide on She finally plumped for a house in the country. besluit op يَخْتار ويُقَرِّر решавам rozhodnout se pro vælge; beslutte sig til sich entscheiden διαλέγω, τάσσομαι υπέρ optar por, decidirse por (millegi) kasuks otsustama سرانجام انتخاب کردن valita se décider pour לִבחוֹר चुनना और फैसला करना prihvatiti vmi mellett dönt memilih velja, skella sér á scegliere ～に決める 선택하다 nuspręsti pasirinkti izvēlēties; izdarīt galīgo izvēli memilih kiezen voor velge, bestemme seg for wybrać, zdecydować się na decidir a se hotărî решаться на rozhodnúť sa pre odločiti se odlučiti se bestämma sig (fastna) för เลือก seçmek, desteklemek 選定，贊成(擁護) рішуче вибирати فيصلہ کرنا quyết định 选定，赞成（拥护）

plump¹

adj plump [ˈplamp]

pleasantly fat and rounded; well filled out plump cheeks. mollig مُمْتَلئ، سَمين закръглен buclatý buttet; fyldig prall παχουλός, στρουμπουλός relleno, regordete, rechoncho ümar چاق و چله؛ پر pullea grassouillet שְׁמַנמַן मोटा, गोल-मटोल bucmast,punašan kövér(kés) montok þybbinn, bústinn grassottello 丸々とした 통통한, 풍만한 putlus, apvalus, apkūnus apaļīgs; tukls montel rond, mollig god og rund, småfet pulchny rechonchudo bucălat полный; пухлый bucľatý, oblý rejen punačak fyllig, knubbig, trind, rund เจ้าเนื้อ tombul 豐滿的 повний; пухкий فربہ، گداز bụ bẫm 丰满的

adv plumply

mollig بامتلاء، بسُمْنَه закръглено oble, kulatě buttet; fyldigt prall φουσκωμένα, παχουλά rechonchamente matsakalt بطور چاق و چله pulleasti rondement בִכבֵדוּת गोल-मटोल debeljkast kövér(kés)en montok skyndilega; afdráttarlaust tondamente 丸々して 통통하게 nerangiai smagi; negaidīti montel rond, mollig fyldig, trivelig pulchnie rechonchudamente pe loc пухло, округло guľato rejeno punačko fylligt, knubbigt อย่างเจ้าเนื้อ tamamen 使豐滿地 пухко گدازي سے một cách đầy đặn 使丰满地

n plumpness

molligheid سُمْنَه، إمتِلاء закръгленост zaoblenost buttethed; fyldighed die Rundlichkeit η ιδιότητα του να είναι κπ. ή κτ. παχουλό(ς) gordura lihavus چاق و چله بودن pulleus rondeur(s) שְׁמַנמַנוּת मोटापन debljina,punašnost kövér(kés)ség kemontokan ávali; þybbinn líkamshluti rotondità, paffutezza 丸々している様子 풍만함 apkūnumas apaļīgums; tuklums kemontelan rondheid, molligheid fyldighet, trivelighet pulchność rechonchudice rotunjime полнота, округлость oblosť rejenost punačkost fyllighet, knubbighet ความอวบอ้วน tombulluk 豐滿 повнота گدازي sự đầy đặn 丰满

plump up

to shake (pillows etc) to restore their shape. op pof يَهُز الوِسادَةِ لإسْتِعادَة شَكْلِها оправям načechrat banke; ryste aufschütteln φουσκώνω ahuecar, sacudir (patju) soputama گرد و قلمبه کردن pöyhiä faire bouffer “לְנַפֵּח” כָּרִיוֹת फुलाना napuniti felráz menepuk-nepuk dusta/hrista til sprimacciare ふくらませる 부풀리다 supurenti uzbužināt menepuk-nepuk opschudden riste opp wstrząsać ajeitar a înfoia взбивать načuchrať pretresti protresti fluffa (skaka) upp เขย่าให้เข้ารูป kabartmak 使鼓起 збивати تکيہ صحيح کرنے کے ليے جھاڑنا vỗ lại (gối) cho tròn 使鼓起

plump → ممتلئ الجسم baculatý buttet mollig παχουλός relleno pullea replet obao paffuto 丸々太った 통통한 stevig fyldig pulchny rechonchudo пухлый fyllig เจ้าเนื้อ tıknaz bầu bĩnh 丰满的

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