An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
PLUMP
chubby, embonpoint, plump
(adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; “a chubby child”; “pleasingly plump”
plump
(adverb) straight down especially heavily or abruptly; “the anchor fell plump into the sea”; “we dropped the rock plump into the water”
plump
(noun) the sound of a sudden heavy fall
fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
(verb) make fat or plump; “We will plump out that poor starving child”
plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump
(verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; “He planked the money on the table”; “He planked himself into the sofa”
plummet, plump
(verb) drop sharply; “The stock market plummeted”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
plump (comparative plumper or more plump, superlative plumpest or most plump)
Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
Fat.
Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
Synonyms
• See also obese
Antonyms
• See also scrawny
Verb
plump (third-person singular simple present plumps, present participle plumping, simple past and past participle plumped)
(intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.
(transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
(transitive) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
(intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
(transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
(transitive with for) To favor or decide in favor of something.
Etymology 2
Verb
plump (third-person singular simple present plumps, present participle plumping, simple past and past participle plumped)
(intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
Adverb
plump
Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
Noun
plump (plural plumps)
The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
Etymology 3
Noun
plump (plural plumps)
(obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
Source: Wiktionary
Plump, a. [Compar. Plumper; superl. Plumpest.] Etym: [OE. plomp rude, clumsy; akin to D. plomp, G., Dan., & Sw. plump; probably of imitative origin. Cf. Plump, adv.]
Definition: Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks. Shak. The god of wine did his plump clusters bring. T. Carew.
Plump, n.
Definition: A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears. [Obs.] To visit islands and the plumps of men. Chapman.
Plump, v. i. Etym: [Cf. D. plompen, G. plumpen, Sw. plumpa, Dan. plumpe. See Plump, a.]
1. To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
2. To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once."Dulcissa plumps into a chair." Spectator.
3. To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
Plump, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Plumping.]
1. To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.plump up the pillows To plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles. Fuller.
2. To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
3. To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
Plump, adv. Etym: [Cf. D. plomp, interj., G. plump, plumps. Cf. Plump, a. &v.]
Definition: Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly. "Fall plump." Beau. & Fl.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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