plump
Meaning
- dumpy, squat, bulky (roundish and misshapen)
- (figuratively) clumsy, heavy, graceless, inelegant
- brash, tactless, crude
Concepts
Synonyms
ungraziös
unschicklich
unelegant
ohne Anmut
ohne Feingefühl
ungefüge
schwankend laufend
ohne Schick
Translations
torpe
onhandig
hantal
αδέξιος
maladroit
tosco
impacciatoFrequency
Dialects
Basel-Landschaft
bollig
Basel-Landschaft
dalpig
Basel-Landschaft
mumpfig
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/plʊmp/
Etymology
From Middle Low German plump, itself onomatopoeic for a dull fall (as of a stone into water, or a sack on the ground). Cognate with Dutch and Middle Dutch plomp (13th c.), whence also English plump. Alemannic German has shifted forms in Alsatian pflumpfig, Swiss pflumpfet, but these were probably formed analogically as the word moved up the Rhine (and thus do not prove West Germanic inheritance).
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