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Definition: PLUMP |
PLUMPAdjective1. To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2. 2. To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once. 3. To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped. Adjective & verb1. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly. Adverb1. Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks. Noun1. A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears. Transitive verb1. To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2. 2. To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water. 3. To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up. |
Date "PLUMP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Note: Plump \Plump\ (pl[u^]mp), adjective. [Comparative Plumper(-[~e]r); superlative Plumpest.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Corn. A corruption of the word pump. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | PLUMP. Fat, full, fleshy. Plump in the pocket; full in the pocket. To plump; to strike, or shoot. I'll give you a plump in the bread basket, or the victualling office: I'll give you a blow in the stomach. Plump his peepers, or day-lights; give him a blow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrival | Come to hand; come at, come across; hit; come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon; meet; encounter, rencounter; come in contact. |
Descent | Tumble, trip, stumble, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper. |
Inexpectation | Adverb: abruptly, unexpectedly, surprisingly; plump, pop, a l'improviste, unawares; without notice, without warning, without a "by your leave"; like a thief in the night, like a thunderbolt; in an unguarded moment; suddenly; (instantaneously). |
Instantaneity | Adverb: instantaneously; Adjective: in no time, in less than no time; presto, subito, instanter, suddenly, at a stroke, like a shot; in a moment; n. in the blink of an eye, in the twinkling of an eye, in a trice; in one's tracks; right away; toute a l'heure; at one jump, in the same breath, per saltum, uno saltu; at once, all at once; plump, slap; "at one fell swoop"; at the same instant; Noun: immediately; (early); extempore, on the moment, on the spot, on the spur of the moment; no sooner said than done; just then; slap-dash; (haste). |
Plunge | Verb: plunge, dip, souse, duck; dive, plump; take a plunge, take a header; make a plunge; bathe;(water). |
Size | Large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon. |
Corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PLUMP |
| English words defined with "PLUMP": buxomness ♦ California quail, Chopping, chubbiness, Chub-faced ♦ distended ♦ fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, Fubs, Fubsy ♦ grouse ♦ Lofortyx californicus ♦ plump out, Plumped, Plumper, Plumpy, pudginess ♦ Rock Cornish, rolypoliness, round ♦ swollen ♦ To bring up with a round turn, tubbiness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PLUMP": Cat Jumps, CHUBBY, Chubunky ♦ Lie Direct, Lie Quarrelsome, Lie-to ♦ PRINCOD. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PLUMP": Plim. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PLUMP" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (awkward, clownish, clownishly, clumsily, clumsy, crass, crude, dumpy, inelegant, inelegantly, inept, lumpish, lumpy, obvious, stumpily, stumpy, ungainly, ungraceful, ungracefully), Norwegian (gross), Swedish (blot, coarse, earthy, indelicate, ribald, scurrilous, vulgar). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ah, most ducks would like to forget it, but the fact is that humans like to eat plump, attractive ducks (Babe; writing credit: George Miller) Really? If you can name me one thing that is more sublime than the feel of a plump, pink nipple between my lips, I'll build you a new cathedral (The Man in the Iron Mask; writing credit: Randall Wallace) I'm not fat, I'm festively plump. (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Histopathology of lymph node shows effacement of architecture with great numbers of plump histiocytes. No granuloma formation or necrosis is present. Credit: CDC. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | So did the plump sister when (r)she came |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He had a quiet toneless voice and urbane manners and on a finger of his plump clean hand he displayed at moments a signet ring |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A plump tortoise shell cat leaped up on the counter and stalked lazily near to him. |
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| "PLUMP" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.10% of the time. "PLUMP" is used about 504 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 (general or positive) | 90.1% | 455 | 12,837 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.52% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.38% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 504 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "PLUMP" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Plump | Last name | 400 | 21,326 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "PLUMP": grow plump ♦ plump down ♦ plump for ♦ plump in ♦ plump out ♦ plump up ♦ small and plump. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PLUMP": plump-cheeked, plump-faced, plump-softness. | |
Ending with "PLUMP": baby-plump, thunder-plump. | |
| 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 |
plump rumps | 2,244 | plump blonde | 30 |
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big n plump | 188 | plump movie | 25 |
plump girl | 175 | bbw forum plump | 25 |
plump teen | 172 | plump gallery | 24 |
plump ass | 147 | plump asian | 24 |
plump woman | 135 | busty plump | 24 |
plump rump | 102 | plump babe | 23 |
plump tit | 75 | plump nude woman | 23 |
plump sex | 72 | plump sluts | 22 |
mature plump | 68 | plump redhead | 20 |
plump butt | 62 | ebony plump | 20 |
plump rumps.com | 62 | black plump | 20 |
plump pussy | 59 | plump lady | 19 |
big and plump | 57 | djs plump | 19 |
plump amateur | 51 | plump latina | 18 |
plump rumps tgp | 46 | plump wife | 18 |
plump tgp | 41 | plump sexy | 18 |
plump lesbian | 37 | plump pic | 17 |
plump nude | 30 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "PLUMP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | plandosje (flop, plunk), plandosem (sprawl), pëlltum (flick, plop, plunk), shëndoshet, rrëzim (canting, collapse, crash, decay, demolition, deposition, destruction, dethronement, eradiation, failure, fall, plough, plow, prostration), rëndë (fatally, hard, heavily, mortally, onerously, sorely, soundly), mbush mirë, i ngjallur (corpulent, fatty, obese, pursy, stout), i mbushur (brimful, charged, crowded, filled, fraught, full, loaded, packed, padded, portly, replete, thick), i kolmë, i drejtpërdrejtë (direct, first hand, flush, immediate, literal, live, outright, play-by-play, point blank), e fryrë, drejt (aright, direct, directly, endlong, erect, fair, flat, orderly, right, rightly, smack, Square, straight, to, toward, towards), befas (abruptly, all at once, all of a sudden, at once, cold, sharply, short, slap, suddenly). (various references) | |
Arabic | ممتلئ الجسم (stocky), ملحم (cohesive), متفخ, مباشر (collateral, conducting, direct, downright, eve, first hand, forthright, frontal, fulfilling, immediate, lineal, non-stop, point blank, proximate, satisfying, through), نفخ (balloon, be puffed up, belly out, bloat, blow up, distend, distension, fill out, inflate, inflation, insufflation, pout, puff, pumping, sulk, swell out, windiness), لحيم (fleshy, meaty), واضح (apparent, bold, broad, clear, conspicuous, decided, definite, elucidative, evident, explicit, express, frank, intelligible, legible, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, marked, obvious, outspoken, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, pointed, pronounced, punctual, purposely, seeming, sharp, specific, transparent, trenchant, visible), سمين (beefy, corpulent, fat, fleshy, obese, portly, puffy, pulpy, ripe, stout), سمن (batten, fatten, flesh, gain weight, plumb out, portliness, stuff, surfeit, thicken), سقط فجأة, سقط بقوة (slue), طبطب, صريح (bare, bluff, candid, categorical, communicative, crude, direct, downright, expansive, explicit, flat, forthcoming, forthright, frank, genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, open, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, overt, palpable, plain, plain spoken, point blank, pronounced, raw, round, simple-hearted, steady, straight, straightforward, transparent, unreserved, unvarnished), بصراحة (barely, blankly, downright, flat, freely, honestly, on the level, outright, overtly, plain, plainly, point blank, unreservedly), بدين (beefy, chubby, corpulent, fatty, fleshy, hefty, obese, overblown, overweight, portly, puffy, replete, rotund, squabby, stout, tubby). (various references) | |
Basque | borobil (round). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | внезапен удар (jab), изневиделица (suddenly), изтърсвам се (land, land on, tip out, whop), падам тежко (flop, pitch), пълничък (chubby, fleshy, rotund, well upholstered, well-padded, well-rounded), без заобикалки (in plain saxon, outright, point blank, roundly), закръглен (full, rotund, round, roundabout, roundish, well fed, well-rounded), направо (dead, direct, directly, due, firsthand, flat, flush, forthright, incontinently, outright, plain, point blank, right, roundly, slap, slap bang, straight, straight out), нахълтвам (intrude, irrupt, plunge, raid), ненадейно (suddenly, unawares), неочакван удар, издрънквам (babble, scrounge, wangle, wheedle), отпускам се (drop, expand, loosen up, open, relax, sit back, slack, unkink, wilt), удрям (bang against, bash, beat, biff, blast, bruise, bust, catch, douse, hammer, heel, hit, impact, jam on, knap, knock, lash, lay, peg at, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, shoot, slam, slam on, smash, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, wallop, zap), внезапно (abruptly, all of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, out of the blue, plop, pop, short, shortly, suddenly, unawares), категоричен (categorical, decided, definite, definitive, emphatic, explicit, final, flat, irresistible, outright, point blank, positive, thorough, unconditional, utter), тежко падане, тръсвам (shake down), тупване (flump, thud, thump, whop), цапардосвам (poke, slam, slosh, sock), цопвам (douse, flop in, plop, plunk), цопване (flop, plop, splash), решителен (chopping, crisp, decided, decisive, determined, drastic, fateful, flat-footed, heroic, high-spirited, obstinate, peremptory, plucky, point blank, pronounced, purposeful, purposive, resolute, ringing, stable, stalwart, straight out, strong-minded, sturdy, thoroughgoing, trenchant, ultimate, unfaltering, unflinching, unhesitating, utter, winning), решително (courageously, decidedly, decisively, firmly, flatly, point blank, pronouncedly, strongly, thundering, unhesitatingly), неочаквано (all at once, all of a sudden, by surprise, on the spur of the moment, out of the blue, pop, slap, unawares). (various references) | |
Chinese | 胖 (fat), 飽滿 (full), 肥满 (Plumpness). (various references) | |
Czech | přímý (above board, direct, downright, firsthand, forthright, head on, immediate, nonstop, non-stop, outright, outspoken, plainspoken, Plumb, point blank, right, Square, straight, straightforward, through, upright), pád (case, collapse, crash, downfall, drop, fall, plunge, ruin, spill, tumble), ztloustnout (fatten, gain weight, get fat, grow fat, run to fat, thicken), zpříma (straight, up, upright), vykrmit (fatten, feed up), tuèný (bold, fat, fattening, fatty, greasy), rovnou (directly, downright, offhand, point blank, right, straight, straight away), kyprý (fluffy, light, loose, voluptuous), buclatý (chubby). (various references) | |
Farsi | فربه ساختن , فربه (Corpulent, Fat, Hammy, Obese, Tubby), محکم افتادن یاافکندن , چاق وچله (Buxom, Lob, Squab), چاق شدن (Batten, Blubber), گوشتالوکردن , گوشتالو (Chubby, Corpulent, Obese, Plumpish, Pudgy, Pulpy, Rotund), صدای تلپ تلپ . (various references) | |
Finnish | pyylevä (stout), pullea (chubby), täyteläinen (full-bodied, mellow, rich), kapsahtaa. (various references) | |
French | potelé, plein, grassouillet, clair (plain), direct, dodu, douillet, empâté, engraisser (plumb out), charnu, franc (plain), tomber lourdement, rebondi, sans mâcher ses mots, tapoter, tomber brusquement, faire bouffer. (various references) | |
German | pummelig (chubby, lumpy, podgy, tubby), prall (billowing, bulging, chubby, collision, firm, full, hard, plumply, swollen, well-rounded), pummlig (chubby, lumpy, podgy, tubby), stämmig (burly, chunky, stockily, stocky, sturdy, thickset), rundlich (chubbily, chubby, podgy, rotund, rounded, roundish), rund (about, chubby, flatly, full, globular, mellow, rotund, roughly, round, roundly), unverblümt (baldly, blunt, forthright, outspoken, outspokenly, pointedly, unceremonious), vollschlank (full figured), voll (bang, bombed out, brimful, canned, chubby, complete, completely, fraught, full, fully, integral, mellow, plastered, plenary, plenteous, plenteously, plentiful, replete, repletely, rich, ripe, rotund, slewed, solid, thick, thorough, undiluted, undivided, unqualified, whole), aufbumsen (bump, plonk), Lot (perpendicular, plumb, plumb line, plumbline, plummet, solder, sounding line), fleischig (beefily, beefy, fleshy, meaty, succulent), feist (fat, fatty, greasy, gross, obese), direkt (blunt, bluntly, clear, direct, directly, due, forthright, immediate, immediately, immediatly, lineal, live, one-level, outspoken, outspokenly, perfect, plain, plainly, randomly, really, right, sheer, slap, squarely, straigh ahead, straight, straightly, unbroken, undeviating), dicklich (heavyset, plumpish, pudgy, tubby), dick (big, bold, bulky, close, corpulent, fat, full, grossly, heavily, heavy, hefty, large, stout, swollen, thick, thickly, turbid, turbidly), mollig (chubby, cozy, snug). (various references) | |
Greek | ρίπτω βαρέωσ, στρογγυλόσ (circular, globose, rotund, round), στρουμπουλόσ (chubby), βαρέωσ (heavily, weightily), παχύσ (adipose, fat, fatty, obese, portly), παχουλόσ (chubby), παχουλός, πίπτω βαρέωσ, απότομοσ (abrupt, bluff, blunt, brusque, curt, jerky, offhand, rugged, steep), τροφαντός (corpulent). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ליפול פתאם (tumble), לפטם (cram, fatten, stuff, surfeit), ל"ת 'ש ב- (cannon into, run into), ל"שמין (fatten, grow fat, put on weight), שמ מן (adipose, chubby, corpulent, fattish, portly, pudgy, rotund, stout), "ישר למט", "שן (abundance, creamy, fatness, fertile, fertilizer, manure, oil), בריא (buxom, fit, healthy, lusty, right, robust, salubrious, sound, stout, well, wholesome). (various references) | |
Hungarian | telt (buxom, fruity, full, mellow, replete, rich, rotund), kövér (adipose, as fat as a pig, beefy, bold, corpulent, fat, gross, have plenty of beef, loamy, lumping, overweight, podgy, pudgy, puffy, thick), egyenesen (above board, bolt upright, by line and level, direct, directly, erect, forthrightly, in true, on the level, outright, point-blank, straight, straight/direct, straight/directly, through, upright, uprightly), nyíltan (aboveboard, avowedly, baldly, bluntly, candidly, confessedly, fair and square, flat, frankly, genuinely, honestly, in the face of day, openly, outright, overtly, professedly, sincerely, to speak out, unreservedly), molett (crummy, fleshy), kövérkés (biggish, crummy, fattish, full, pudgy, stoutish), huppanás (dump, thump), hirtelen (abrupt, abruptly, all at once, all of a sudden, bang, bulge, hasty, headlong, heady, on a sudden, out of the blue, pop, precocious, presently, raid, rapid, rashly, sharp, short, skedaddle, slap dash, slap-dash, smack, snap, snoring, spasmodic, speedily, sudden, suddenly, to pop out, to pull up, to yaw). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sintal (chubby), montok (buxom, chubby, curvaceous), gempal (sturdy), debur (pounding of heart), berdaging (wealthy). (various references) | |
Italian | paffuto (chubby, puffy, round), sostenere (abet, assert, back, bear, bolster, brace, buoy, claim, hold up, incur, insist, keep up, lean, maintain, meet, play, stake, stand, stand up to, state, stay, support, sustain, take, uphold, withstand), rotondo (circular, full, globose, podgy, pudsy, rotund, round, roundly), improvviso (abrupt, out of the blue, sharp, snap, sudden, unexpected), improvvisamente (abruptly, all of a sudden, overnight, slap, suddenly), grassoccio (chubby, podgy, pudgy, pudsy, round, squab), gonfiare (bloat, blow, blow up, exaggerate, inflate, pad, puff out, puff up, pump up, swell), diretto (addressed, bound, cross, direct, directly, going, immediate, lineal, outright, point blank, through, through train), decisivo (arbitrative, clinching, conclusive, crucial, decisive, definitive, final), decisivamente, chiaramente (baldly, barely, clearly, plain), carnoso (fleshy, meaty), cadere (crumble, devolve, drop, fall, land, pitch, plunge, sink, sink down, slump, topple, tumble), alimentare (alimentary, feed, nourish). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 豊満 (corpulent, stout, voluptuous), 豊満 (corpulent, stout, voluptuous), 肉付きのよい (fat, well-fleshed, well-padded), 肥った (fat, stout), ぽたぽた落ちる (bit by bit, chubby, cloop, crunching sound, dabble in water, fat, having just ..., in large drops, merely, piece by piece, pimples, plop, pop, splash water, spots, to drip down, to fall in drops, to trickle down, trickle down in thick drops, with a pop), 小肥り , ばい菌 (a sure thing, abruptly, bacteria, be dry, disconnected, disperse, divorced, flop, germ, in drops, in pieces, loose, only, perfectly, properly, right on the mark, rustle, rustling, scattered, suddenly, to be exhausted, to be worn out, to expose, to kill, to lay open, to murder, to take to pieces, unexpectedly, with a bang, with a clash, with a thud), どさ回り'やる (blunder or clumsiness, constantly, flump, heavily, noise, noisy, one after the other, rapidly, slapstick, sound of tramping, sumo exclamation, to be on the road, to go on tour, whatever, whichever, with a flop, with a thud, without hesitation), 太った (chubby, fat), 太る (to become fat, to grow fat stout), 丸々と , 丸丸と太った (chubby, rotund), 丸丸と , ぴ"と来る (full, lively, small cloth for wiping tea utensils, small silk wrapper, soft, sound of heavy breathing, to get, to know intuitively, to strike home, well-rounded). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まるまるとふとった (chubby, rotund), まるまると, ぽってり (fat), ぽちゃぽちゃ (chubby, dabble in water, splash water), ふくよか (full, well-rounded), ふとった (chubby, fat, stout), ばったり (abruptly, flop, suddenly, unexpectedly, with a bang, with a clash), どたりと (flump, with a flop), どし"と (heavily, with a thud), ほうま" (corpulent, indiscretion, laxity, looseness, satiety, stout, surfeit, voluptuous, whimsy), にくづきのよい (fat, well-fleshed, well-padded), "ぶとり. (various references) | |
Korean | 부푸" (Heaved, Plumper, Plumpest). (various references) | |
Manx | roauyr (bulky, buxom, corpulent, fat, firm, fleshy, heavy, obese, overweight, sleek, stiff, stout, thick), cullagh, beeit (fatted, fed, foddered). (various references) | |
Occitan | redond (round). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | umpplay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | positivo (affirmative, factual, literal, plus, positive), pesadamente (heavily, heavy, lubberly), direto (direct, immediate, non-stop, plainspoken, point-blank, straight, straightforward, through, thru), amplo (all-embracing, ample, broad, bulky, commodious, extensive, full, large, loose, open, roomy, spacious, vast, wide), arredondado (round, rounded, roundish), arremessar (bolt, cob, dash, give over, hurl, jerk, knock, launch, pitch, shoot, sling, strike, throw), baque (blow, flop, shake, shoke, thud, thump), baquear (fall, fall down, flop, flump), cair (collapse, drop, fall, flump, founder, go down, hang, keel over, lapse, pelt, prey, prostrate, sink, sleet, topple), carnudo (beefy, fleshy, meaty, pulpy, succulent), categórico (categorical, emphatic, point-blank), categoricamente (point-blank, positively), aguaceiro repentino, dilatar (dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, get about, protract, swell), terminantemente (flatly, point-blank, positively, strictly), engordar (batten, fatten, furnish, lard, weigh on), franco (above-board, bluff, candid, clear, direct, downright, dyed-in-the, forthright, franc, frank, freehearted, guileless, honest, ingenuous, large-hearted, non-partisan, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, simple, simple-hearted, sincere, single-hearted, straightforward, unconcealed, undisguised, unequivocal), grupo (bevy, brood, bunch, cluster, collection, committee, crew, crowd, denomination, flock, gang, group, heap, herd, junta, junto, series, team, tribe, troop, troupe), queda pesada, rico (abundant, affluent, costly, crummy, flush, livery, moneyed, opulent, plenteous, plummy, podded, pregnant, racy, resourceful, rich, saturated, substantial, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do), roliço (buxom, roly-poly, round), subitamente (all of a sudden, bolt, bounce, out of the blue, short, suddenly), surdamente, cheio (bursting, chock-full, complete, flush, fraught, full, overflowing, overgrown, philoprogenitive, prolific, rank, replete, round, stuffed, teeming, thick, tumid). (various references) | |
Romanian | direct (bluff, bluntly, candidly, categorical, direct, directly, due, fair, first hand, flat, formal, frankly, full, immediate, official, open, openly, outright, straight, straightforward, straightforwardly, straightly, straightway, through), arunca (bowl, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, cob, dart, dash, deliver, discard, drop, fling, huddle on, hurl, jet, jettison, launch, peg, pelt at, pitch, pluck, plunge into, precipitate, project, put, reject, rush, send, shoot, slam, sling, throw, throw away, throw off, throw out, toss, tumble), bâldâbâc (plop), brusc (abrupt, abruptly, all at once, bang, bounce, brusque, plop, rash, roughly, rude, sharp, sharply, short, shortly, snap, sudden, suddenly, unawares, unexpected, unexpectedly), bucãlat (chubby, chubby-cheeked), bufniturã (flump, thud), cãdea brusc (tumble), îngrãşa (batten, cram, fatten, fertilize, manure), categoric (absolute, absolutely, beyond peradventure, categorical, categorically, clear, curt, decided, decisive, definite, definitely, dogmatic, downright, emphatic, explicit, explicitly, flat, flatly, formal, much, on the dead, peremptorily, peremptory, positive, positively, simply, Square, stiff, unanswerable, unbending, unqualified), trânti (bounce, flunk, hit, knock down, overthrow, plough, pluck, slam, throw, toss), dolofan (chubby), durduliu (buxom, chubby, podgy, puffy), grãsuţ (fattish), net (avowedly, clear, clear-cut, decided, decidedly, flat, net, Square), rotofei (fat, fleshly), se îngrãşa (batten, fatten, flesh, get fat, grow fat, put on flesh, put on weight, wax fat), cãdere (authority, becomingness, break down, collapse, cropper, debacle, destruction, downfall, drop, failure, fall, labefaction, lapse, rot, spill, Turkey). (various references) | |
Russian | решительный (categorical, crisp, decided, decisive, determinate, determined, drastic, emphatic, fateful, forceful, manful, point blank, point-blank, purposive, resolute, resolved, strong-willed, sweeping, unflinching, unhesitating), тяжелое падение (mucker), категорический (categorical, flat, peremptory), пухлый;полный, пухлый (chubby, padded, pudgy, roly poly, roly-poly, rotund, tubby), прямо (avowedly, bang, direct, directly, endlong, endways, endwise, erect, foursquare, head-on, in plain English, just, on the level, outright, plainly, point blank, slap, spang, squarely, straight, straight from the shoulder, straight out, straightly, up and down, uprightly). (various references) | |
Scottish | reamhar (fat, gross, thick). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | punačak, jedar (bouncing, crisp, firm, succinct), gomila (accumulation, agglomerate, aggregate, batch, concourse, congeries, crowd, flock, heap, huddle, mob, pile, pileup, stack, swarm, throng), debeo (beefy, fat, full, gross, large, obese, porky, thick, tubby). (various references) | |
Spanish | ponerse regordete, pesadamente (burdensomely, heavily), soltar bruscamente, ruido sordo (grumble, plonk, plunk, thud, thump), rechoncho (chubby, chunky, podgy, pudgy, squat, stocky, stubby, thickset, tubby), justo (bang, correct, equitable, fair, just, legitimate, right, righteous, rightful, Square, that's right, true), gordo (corpulent, fat, fatso, fatty, fleshy, greasy, porky, portly, rotund, stout, thick, top), engordar (fatten, fill out, gain, get fat, grow fat, increase, put on, swell), con un ruido sordo (plunk), categórico (categoric, categorical, definite, downright, emphatic, express, flat, point blank), categóricamente (blankly, categorically, definitely, flatly, point blank, positively), caer de golpe. (various references) | |
Swedish | knubbig (bonny, chubby, podgy, pudgy, roly poly, tubby), fyllig (ample, buxom, detailed, full, full-bodied, full-flavored, full-flavoured, mellow, orotund, rich, well-rounded), dimpa ner. (various references) | |
Turkish | pat diye söylemek (blurt out, chop, snap, snap out, spring), pat (aster, bang, blip, flump, phut, pop, thud), pat diye oturmak (plank oneself down), patırtı (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, disorder, dustup, fracas, noise, riot, roughhouse, row, rumpus, sound and fury, stir, to-do, tumult, welter), patavatsız (blunt, gauche, harum scarum, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, indiscreet, out of turn, plainspoken, politically incorrect, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, without tact), patavatsızca (tactlessly, thoughtlessly), pat diye (out of the blue, pop, slap, slap bang, suddenly), birden (all of a sudden, at a stroke, at once, at one heat, instantaneous, per saltum, pop, sharp, short, slap, slap bang, snap, suddenly), küt diye bırakmak, şişmanlatmak (fat, fat up, fatten, plump out), etine dolgun (full, in flesh, sonsy, strapping), açıkça (above board, avowedly, bluntly, clear, clearly, cloudlessly, declaredly, definitely, directly, distinctly, downright, evidently, expressly, fairly, flatly, frankly, in round terms, manifestly, nakedly, openly, outright, outspokenly, plainly, point blank, professedly, roundly, simply, straight out), cumburlop, düşme sesi, dobra (outspoken, raunchy, undiplomatic), dolgun (buxom, chubby, fat, goodly, lined, sonorous, succulent, well-rounded), etli (beefy, fleshy, meaty, pulpy, sarcous, succulent, with meat), gümbürtü (booming sound, clap, clash, roaring, roll, rumble), açık sözlü (bluff, blunt, expansive, explicit, forthcoming, Frank, free-spoken, honest, ingenuous, outspoken, plain spoken, plainspoken, straight out, unreserved), küt diye (plonk, plunk, with a sharp blow), tombullaşmak (fatten, grow plump, plump out, wax fat), küt diye düşmek, semirtmek (cram, fat, fat up, fatten, feed up, make fat, plump out, tallow), tıknaz (chunky, podgy, pudgy, roly poly, stocky, stout, thickset, tubby), tombul (chubby, elephantine, fat, fatty, fleshy, porky, pudgy, roly poly, rotund, roundabout, sonsy, well-rounded), küt (bang, bump, pop, thud). (various references) | |
Turkmen | pцkgi (ball, chubby), semiz (fat), lopbush (chubby). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ускочити (jump in), сплеск, роздуватися (balloon, bloat, blow out, bulge, distend), відгодовувати (condition, cram, fatten, feed up, tallow), важке падіння, огрядний (burly, corpulent, obese, overblown, portly, stout), несподівано (abruptly, bang, casually, overnight, surprisingly, unawares, unexpectedly), зненацька (by surprise, suddenly), бухатися, бухати, пухлий (padded), прямо (above board, avowedly, baldly, bang, barely, broadly, clean, direct, directly, flush, forthright, outright, outspokenly, plainly, point blank, roundly, straight, through, upright), повновагий (pukka). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phúng phính (pudsy), phịch xuống, mẫm, ùm xuống thẳng, bọn cái rơi phịch xuống, bầy (brood, cluster, covey, herd, parcel, regiment), cái lao tùm xuống, cái ngã ùm xuống, đội (body, grouping, groupment, party), không quanh co (plainly, plain-spoken), tròn trĩnh (boxom, moonish), nhóm (bevy, coterie, crowd, galaxy, groupment, number), thẳng (direct, erect, flat, front, straight, straightaway, thro, through, undeviating), thẳng thừng (blankly, downright, flat, flatly), toạc móng heo (bluntly, downright), không úp mở (declared, overt, plainly, plain-spoken, roundly). (various references) | |
Welsh | tew (fat, thick), llyfndew (sleek), gweddgar (sleek). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | kuru, mu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | obesis, plena, plenae, plenaeque, plenam, plenaque, plenas, plene, pleni, plenissimam, pleno, plenos, plenum, plenus. (various references) |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | plomp. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PLUMP": plumped, plumpen, plumpened, plumpening, plumpens, plumper, plumpers, plumpest, plumping, plumpish, plumply, plumpness, plumpnesses, plumps. (additional references) | |
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"PLUMP" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aplomp, klump, pclamp, pium, Plim, plimm, plomp, ploomp, plumn, plumpy, plup, plusmn, plutp, polup. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PLUMP" (pronounced plu"mp) |
| 4 | -l u" m p | clump, lump, slump. |
| 3 | -u" m p | bump, chump, Crump, dump, frump, grump, hump, jump, pump, rump, stump, sump, thump, trump. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-m-p-p-u" | |
-1 letter: lump, plum, pulp, pump. | |
-2 letters: lum, pul, pup, ump. | |
-3 letters: mu, um, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-m-p-p-u" | |
+1 letter: peplum, plumps. | |
+2 letters: peplums, plumped, plumpen, plumper, plumply. | |
+3 letters: empurple, peplumed, plumiped, plumpens, plumpers, plumpest, plumping, plumpish, populism, pumpless, pumplike. | |
+4 letters: empurpled, empurples, plumipeds, plumpened, plumpness, pompously, populisms. | |
+5 letters: empurpling, plumpening, propylaeum, supplement. | |
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