plump

Meanings

Noun

• The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
• A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.

Adjective

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

Verb

• To grow plump; to swell out.
• To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
• To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
• To give a plumper (kind of vote).
• To give (a vote), as a plumper.
• To favor or decide in favor of something.
• To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.

Adverb

• Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

Origin

• From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump.
• From Middle English plumpen, akin to Middle Dutch plompen, Middle Low German plumpen, German plumpfen.
• From Middle English plump.