plump

PLUMP, adjective 1. Full; swelled with fat or flesh to the full size; fat; having a full skin; round; as a plump boy; a plump habit of body. The famish'd crow grows plump and round. 2. Full; blunt; unreserved; unqualified; as a plump lie. PLUMP, noun A knot; a cluster; a clump; a number of things closely united or standing together; as a plump of trees; a plump of fowls; a plump of horsemen. [This word is not now used in this sense, but the use of it formerly, is good evidence that plump is clump, with a different prefix, and both are radically one word with lump. Plumb, Latin plumbum, is the same word, a lump or mass. PLUMP, verb transitive [from the adjective.] To swell; to extend to fullness; to dilate; to fatten. The particles of air expanding themselves, plump out the sides of the bladder. A wedding at our house will plump me up with good cheer. PLUMP, verb intransitive 1. To plunge or fall like a heavy mass or lump of dead matter; to fall suddenly or at once. 2. To enlarge to fullness; to be swelled. PLUMP, adverb Suddenly; heavily; at once, or with a sudden heavy fall.