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Definition: PLUMPER |
PLUMPERNoun1. A downright, unqualified lie. 2. A voter who plumps his vote. 3. A vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are to be elected, thus giving him the advantage over the others. A person who gives his vote thus is said to plump, or to plump his vote. 4. One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks. |
Date "PLUMPER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Plumper (A). Every elector represented in Parliament by two members has the power of voting for both candidates at an election. To give a plumper is to vote for only one of the candidates, and not to use the second vote. If he votes for two candidates of opposite politics, his vote is termed a split vote. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Expansion | Bulb; (convexity); plumper; superiority of size. |
Government | Election, poll, ballot, vote, referendum, recall, initiative, voice, suffrage, plumper, cumulative vote, plebiscitum, plebiscite, vox populi; electioneering; voting; Verb: elective franchise; straight ticket; opinion poll, popularity poll. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PLUMPER |
| English words defined with "PLUMPER": Plump. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PLUMPER" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (clumsier, dumpier, plumpest, pudgier, stumpier, unwieldier). |
| "PLUMPER" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "PLUMPER" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (comparative) | 92.31% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PLUMPER": plumper-looking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
plumper | 665 | plumper porn | 21 |
lip plumper | 135 | plumper girl | 21 |
sexy plumper | 114 | plumper young | 21 |
plumper sex | 91 | plumper pleasure | 20 |
plumper teen | 81 | lip model plumper secret | 19 |
plumper gallery | 77 | amateur plumper | 18 |
plumper tgp | 47 | anal plumper | 18 |
plumper movie | 44 | plumper hardcore | 17 |
mature plumper | 43 | fat plumper | 17 |
plumper pic | 36 | old plumper | 16 |
free plumper pic | 34 | plumper video | 16 |
free plumper gallery | 33 | busty plumper | 16 |
plumper thumb | 29 | plumper mpeg | 16 |
free plumper movie | 28 | plumper babe | 15 |
69 plumper | 27 | blonde plumper | 14 |
plumper tit | 27 | hose pantie plumper | 14 |
black plumper | 26 | plumper picture | 14 |
free plumper | 25 | ebony plumper | 14 |
plumper therapy | 25 | hairy plumper | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "PLUMPER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | æ¯"较肥满. (various references) | |
Korean | 부푸ëŠ" (Heaved, Plump, Plumpest). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | umperplay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tombo brusco e pesado, mentira descarada (bouncer). (various references) | |
Romanian | minciunã sfruntatã (oner, whopper). (various references) | |
Turkish | yalan (deceit, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, fib, flam, gammon, hollow, invention, lie, made up, mendacious, prevarication, quack, sham, shave, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tell a lie, telltale, untrue, untruth, untruthful), oy (ballot vote, suffrage, vote), buruşturulmuş kâğıt. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lá»i nói dối trắng trợn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PLUMPER": plumpers. (additional references) | |
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"PLUMPER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flumper, Llompart, plumer, plumery, Plumley, plumpers, Plumptre, pulper. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-m-p-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: lumper, peplum, pulper, pumper, purple, repump, rumple. | |
-2 letters: lemur, plume, plump, puler, upper. | |
-3 letters: lump, lure, merl, mule, mure, perm, perp, plum, prep, pule, pulp, pump, pure, purl, repp, rule, rump. | |
-4 letters: elm, emu, leu, lum, mel, pep, per, pul, pup, pur, rem, rep, rue, rum, ump. | |
-5 letters: el, em, er, me, mu, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-m-p-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: empurple, plumpers. | |
+2 letters: empurpled, empurples. | |
+3 letters: empurpling, propylaeum. | |
+4 letters: semipopular. | |
+5 letters: multipurpose, pumpernickel, supplementer. | |
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