Plumped vs Flumped - What's the difference?
plumped | flumped |
(plump)
To grow ; to swell out.
To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
* Spectator
To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up .
* Fuller
To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
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.
Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
* (Thomas Carew) (1595-1640)
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Fat.
Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
(obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
(flump)
to move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound
to drop something heavily or with a dull sound
As verbs the difference between plumped and flumped
is that plumped is past tense of plump while flumped is past tense of flump.plumped
English
Verb
(head)plump
English
Verb
(en verb)- Her cheeks have plumped .
- Dulcissa plumps into a chair.
- to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles
- to plump a stone into water
- "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)- The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* See alsoAdverb
Noun
(en noun)- a plump of trees, fowls, or spears
- To visit islands and the plumps of men. — Chapman.