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

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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

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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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