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plump

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1. plump - Noun

2. plump - Adjective

3. plump - Verb

4. plump - Adverb

6. plump - Adjective Satellite

7. Plump - Proper noun

Meaning

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

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

To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.

To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.

To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.

To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.

To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.

To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.

Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump. Boyle Roche

I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women -- you know -- long-suffering, dutiful -- but all right in the end -- a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers. Peter Greenaway

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. James Joyce

Who gets married to a thin woman will know bitterness and strife, who marries a plump woman will be contented at the table and sleeping chamber. Sicilian Proverb

May you have kindness in your heart, a plump woman in your furs, and seal meat in you larder. Eskimo Proverb

May you have kindness in your heart, a plump woman in your furs. Eskimo Proverb

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