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Plump vs Juicy - What's the difference?

plump | juicy |

As adjectives the difference between plump and juicy

is that plump is having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight while juicy is having lots of juice.

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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    juicy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • having lots of juice
    • a juicy peach
  • (of a story, etc. ) exciting, interesting, or enticing
    • I do not keep up with all the latest juicy rumors.
  • (of a blow, strike, etc. ) strong, painful
  • * 1960:' ''“Your head feels funny, doesn't it?” “It does rather,” I said, the bump I had given it had been a '''juicy one, and the temples were throbbing.'' (, ''(Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter V)
  • * 1960:' ''Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the '''juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.'' (, ''(Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter I)

    • Antonyms

    * unjuicy

    Derived terms

    * juiciness