EGAVE

plump

About 1.74 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
    a plump baby; plump cheeks
  2. adjective Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
  3. adjective Of a wine: giving the sensation of filling the mouth.
  4. verb To grow plump; to swell out.
    Her cheeks have plumped.
  5. verb To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
    to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water
  6. verb To give a plumper (kind of vote).
  7. verb To give (a vote), as a plumper.
  8. verb To favor or decide in favor of. .mw-parser-output .object-usage-tag{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output .deprecated{color:var(--wikt-palette-grey-lime-8,olivedrab)}[with for ‘something’]

Similar words

fat embonpoint chubby fatten fatten up zaftig buxom plop plonk plump down

Often followed by

and little woman for as face hand hands cheeks

Word family

plumped plumper plumpest plumping plumpish plumps

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