PLUMP

  

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PLUMP

Definition: PLUMP

PLUMP

Adjective

1. 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 & verb

1. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

Adverb

1. Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.

Noun

1. A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.

Transitive verb

1. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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)

 

Specialty Definition: PLUMP

DomainDefinition

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: PLUMP

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: PLUMP

English words defined with "PLUMP": buxomnessCalifornia quail, Chopping, chubbiness, Chub-faceddistendedfat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, Fubs, FubsygrouseLofortyx californicusplump out, Plumped, Plumper, Plumpy, pudginessRock Cornish, rolypoliness, roundswollenTo bring up with a round turn, tubbiness. (references)
Specialty definitions using "PLUMP": Cat Jumps, CHUBBY, ChubunkyLie Direct, Lie Quarrelsome, Lie-toPRINCOD. (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).

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Modern Usage: PLUMP

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: PLUMP

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: PLUMP

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: PLUMP

ThumbnailDescription & 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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Use in Literature: PLUMP

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: PLUMP

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)90.1%45512,837
Lexical Verb (infinitive)7.52%3855,818
Lexical Verb (base form)2.38%12101,599
                    Total100.00%504N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: PLUMP

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
PlumpLast name40021,326
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: PLUMP

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PLUMP

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.
 
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22

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68

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20

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62

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20

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62

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30
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Modern Translation: PLUMP

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 

  

(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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: PLUMP

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

kuru, mu. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

obesis, plena, plenae, plenaeque, plenam, plenaque, plenas, plene, pleni, plenissimam, pleno, plenos, plenum, plenus. (various references)

Dutch700-Modern

plomp. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: PLUMP

Derivations

Words beginning with "PLUMP": plumped, plumpen, plumpened, plumpening, plumpens, plumper, plumpers, plumpest, plumping, plumpish, plumply, plumpness, plumpnesses, plumps. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "PLUMP"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "PLUMP" (pronounced plu"mp)
4-l u" m pclump, lump, slump.
3-u" m pbump, chump, Crump, dump, frump, grump, hump, jump, pump, rump, stump, sump, thump, trump.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: PLUMP

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Bibliography


  

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