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Plump vs Fleshy - What's the difference?

plump | fleshy |

As adjectives the difference between plump and fleshy

is that plump is having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight while fleshy is of, related to, or resembling flesh.

As a verb plump

is to grow ; to swell out.

As an adverb plump

is directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

As a noun plump

is (obsolete) a knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.

plump

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To grow ; to swell out.
    • Her cheeks have plumped .
  • To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
  • * Spectator
    • Dulcissa plumps into a chair.
  • To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up .
  • * Fuller
    • to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles
  • To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
    • to plump a stone into water
  • To give a plumper (kind of vote).
  • To give (a vote), as a plumper.
  • (used with for) To favor or decide in favor of something.
    • "A recent poll by the New York Times found that although most Brazilians plump for arch-rival Argentina as the team they most want to lose, the second-biggest group want Brazil itself to stumble." source: http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21600983-brazilian-workers-are-gloriously-unproductive-economy-grow-they-must-snap-out

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
  • * (Thomas Carew) (1595-1640)
    • The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.
  • *
  • Fat.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * See also

    Adverb

  • Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
    • a plump of trees, fowls, or spears
    To visit islands and the plumps of men. — Chapman.

    References

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    fleshy

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Of, related to, or resembling flesh.
  • * 1850 , , David Copperfield , ch. 7:
    • Mr. Creakle . . . showed me the cane, and asked me what I thought of THAT? . . . Did it bite? At every question he gave me a fleshy cut with it that made me writhe.
  • * 1901 , , The First Men in the Moon , ch. 8:
    • [O]ver reefs and banks of shining rock, a bristling beard of spiky and fleshy vegetation was straining into view.
  • (of a person) Having considerable flesh.
  • * 1894 , , The Prisoner of Zenda , ch. 3:
    • The King's face was slightly more fleshy than mine, the oval of its contour the least trifle more pronounced.
  • * 1908 , , "The Heathen":
    • He was a large fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly-mountain of fat.
  • * 2009 , Lisa Abend, " Google Earth Takes On the Prado's Masterworks," Time , 15 Jan.:
    • It's hard to imagine why Flemish Renaissance artist Peter Paul Rubens would paint a blemish on the backside of one of the fleshy lovelies meant to represent beauty, charm and good cheer, but there's no denying that single red brushstroke in the midst of his central figure's creamy skin.

    Usage notes

    * is not necessarily negative in connotation (as fat, for example) and may be used to describe men or women.

    Synonyms

    * (having considerable flesh) corpulent, full-figured, porky, pudgy, well-covered

    Antonyms

    * (having considerable flesh) bony, slender, slim