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Plump vs Plush - What's the difference?

plump | plush |

As adjectives the difference between plump and plush

is that plump is having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight while plush is (uk) very extravagant.

As nouns the difference between plump and plush

is that plump is (obsolete) a knot or cluster; a group; a crowd while plush is a textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.

As a verb plump

is to grow ; to swell out.

As an adverb plump

is directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

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

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    Antonyms

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    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.

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    plush

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (UK) Very extravagant.
  • (UK) Very expensive, or appearing expensive.
  • They lived in a plush apartment complex.
  • (of a man-made object) Having a soft, fluffy exterior.
  • This plush toy is so cute and soft - I want it!

    Noun

  • A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush , and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • That night the Boy slept in a different bedroom, and he had a new bunny to sleep with him. It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about it.
  • A (type of) child's toy, usually an animal, filled with soft material.
  • * 2002 , Billboard (volume 114, number 9, 2 March 2002, page 70)
  • When Play Along — the holder of the Care Bears master toy license — placed Care Bears plushes in Spencer Gifts last year, tweens and teenage girls bought the toys.
  • * 2008 , Lionel Birglen, Thierry Laliberté, Clément M. Gosselin, Underactuated Robotic Hands (page 94)
  • For a small fee, the player can control a crane equipped with a gripper to pick a gift, usually a plush or a small toy, and has to drop it in a place where he/she can grab it.
  • * 2011 , Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012 (page 759)
  • L.A. Prop Cinema Storage, full of kids' clothing (mostly for girls), PJs, and lots of toys and plushes (there's also a substantial infant area).

    Derived terms

    * plushie * plushly * plushness * plushy * plush toy