plump

Meaning

Adj

1. Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
2. Fat.
3. Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.
2. (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
3. (intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
4. (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
5. (intransitive) To favor or decide in favor of.

Verb

1. (transitive) To cast or let drop (something) all at once, suddenly and heavily.
2. (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.

Adv

Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

Noun

The sound of a sudden heavy fall.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
2. A group of geese flying close together.

Synonyms

chubby

fat

stout

corpulent

fleshy

obese

portly

round

pudgy

buxom

rotund

flop

overweight

full

plunk

plop

well-fed

tubby

voluptuous

embonpoint

fatten up

roly-poly

cakes

plump out

blunt

go

heavy

flump

swollen

sappy

fatten

large

fatty

stocky

direct

sheer

slap

podgy

plonk

blurt out

plank

plummet

soft

flush

food

🍽️

grow fat

flesh out

fill out

fertile

flat

Translations

gras

potelé

dodu

mollig

regordete

gordo

rebondi

potelée

roliço

dick

rechonchudo

grassottello

paffuto

pummelig

Pronounced as (IPA)

/plʌmp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: plump

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: plump

Inherited from Middle English: plumpen

Cognate with Middle Dutch: plompen

Cognate with Middle Low German: plumpen

Cognate with German: plumpfen

In summary

From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump. Cognate with Saterland Frisian plump (“plump”).