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[ adjective ] euphemisms for slightly fat

Examples

"a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton "chubby babies" "pleasingly plump"

Used in print

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

There was a glass pane in the front_door , and through this he could see into a hallway where a plump woman with red hair was arranging flowers .

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

He ran on his plump sticks of legs , freezing now_and_again into the sudden startled attitudes which the camera had caught and held_on the paling photographs , all carefully placed and glued and labeled , resting in the fat plush album in the bottom drawer of the escritoire .

Related terms

fat

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[ verb ] give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number

Synonyms

go

Examples

"I plumped for the losing candidates"

Related terms

choose

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[ verb ] set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise

Examples

"He planked the money on the table" "He planked himself into the sofa"

Related terms

set_down plonk

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[ verb ] drop sharply

Synonyms

plummet

Examples

"The stock market plummeted"

Related terms

drop

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[ verb ] make fat or plump

Examples

"We will plump out that poor starving child"

Related terms

change feed

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[ adverb ] (informal) straight down especially heavily or abruptly

Examples

"the anchor fell plump into the sea" "we dropped the rock plump into the water"

Related terms

colloquialism

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 21326
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[ noun ] the sound of a sudden heavy fall

Related terms

noise plummet

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