tumbled English
Verb
(head)
(tumble)
tumble English
Noun
( en noun)
A fall.
- I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.
An act of sexual intercourse.
* John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth
- Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?
* 1979 , Martine, Sexual Astrology (page 219)
- When you've just had a tumble between the sheets and are feeling rumpled and lazy, she may want to get up so she can make the bed.
Derived terms
* rough and tumble
* take a tumble
* tumble dryer
* tumbler
* give a tumble
Verb
(tumbl)
(lb) To fall end over end.
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.
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*:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
:(Rowe)
To roll over and over.
*1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
*:The two animals tumbled over each other in their eagerness to get inside, and heard the door shut behind them with great joy and relief.
(lb) To have sexual intercourse.
(lb) To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.
To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
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Derived terms
* tumble to
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plummed English
Verb
(head)
(plum)
plum Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with German Pflaume, Dutch pruim. Compare prune
Noun
( en noun)
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica , often of a dark red or purple colour.
The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica .
A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
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A desirable thing.
A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling, or a person possessing it.
A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.
(pejorative) A fool, idiot.
(slang, usually in plural) A testicle.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species sharing '' with ''Prunus domestica including, among others:
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## Prunus mume , an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
The stone-fruit trees which bear these fruits.
The fruits of many unrelated trees and shrubs with fruit perceived to resemble plums
The trees and shrubs bearing those fruits
Synonyms
* (tree) plum tree, plumtree
* ume
Derived terms
* American black plum
* Assyrian plum
* Australian plum
* Brazilian plum
* Canada plum
* Darling plum
* East Indian plum
* Guinea plum
* Indian plum
* Jamaica plum
* Japanese plum
* Japan plum
* Morocco plum
* Natal plum
* Orleans plum
* Port Arthur plum
* Queensland plum
* Satsuma plum
* Spanish plum
* Tasmanian plum
* Victoria plum
* yellow Spanish plum
* apple-plum
* beach plum, beach-plum
* black plum of Illawarra
* blood plum
* bullace plum
* cherry plum
* chickasaw plum
* cocoa plum, coco plum, cocoplum
* damascene plum, damask plum, damson plum
* date plum, date-plum
* dried plum
* gingerbread plum
* golden plum
* gopher plum
* gray plum, grey plum
* ground plum
* hog-plum
* horse-plum
* leaf curling plum aphid
* marmalade plum
* mirabelle plum
* mountain plum
* muscle plum
* mussel plum
* myrobalan plum, myrobella plum
* olive-plum
* partridge plum
* pear-plum
* persimmon-plum
* pigeon-plum
* plum blossom
* plum brandy
* plum curculio
* plum peach
* plum pox
* plum pudding, plum-pudding
* plum rains
* plum sauce
* plum tomato
* plum tree
* plum weevil
* plum wine
* plum-bird, plum bird
* plum-blossom
* plum-broth
* plum-budder, plum budder
* plum-cake
* plum-color, plum-colour
* plum-colored, plum-coloured
* plumcot
* plum-damas, plumdamas, plum-damis
* plum-dough, plum-duff
* plum-fir
* plum-gouger, plum gouger
* plum-in-the-mouth
* plumless
* plummy
* plum-pie
* plum-pockets
* plum-porridge
* plum-pottage
* plumrock
* plum-stone
* pluot
* sapodilla plum
* sebesten plum
* slugplum
* sugar plum, sugar-plum, sugarplum
* tamarind plum
* the bloom of the plum, the blue of the plum
* urucuri plum
* wheat-plum
* wild plum
* yellow plum
* yellowgage plum
Adjective
( more)
(comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
(not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
- She landed a plum position as an executive for the firm.
See also
* briolette
* damson
* greengage
* mirabelle
* myrobalan
* prune
* sapote
* slivovitz
* sloe
* umeboshi
* umesu
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Etymology 2
Phonetically based spelling of (plumb)
Adverb
( -)
Completely; utterly.
- You're going to think I'm plum crazy for this, but I want to adopt all seven kittens.
Verb
(plumm)
(mining) To plumb.
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