Plumper vs Plumped - What's the difference?
plumper | plumped |
(plump)
One who plumps or swells out something else.
That which plumps or swells out something else.
Hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks.
In elections, a vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are to be elected, thus giving him or her the advantage over the others; a person who gives his or her vote thus is said to plump, or to plump his or her vote.
A voter who plumps his or her vote.
A downright, unqualified lie.
(internet, slang) An obese woman, especially in pornography. [http://groups.google.co.uk/groups/search?q=%22plumpers%22+bbw&btnG=Search&sitesearch=groups.google.com]
(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.
As an adjective plumper
is comparative of plump.As a noun plumper
is one who plumps or swells out something else.As a verb plumped is
past tense of plump.plumper
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* (one who plumps) * (that which plumps) * (something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks) * (vote given to one candidate when two or more are to be elected) * (voter who plumps his vote) * pork pie (Cockney rhyming slang''), porky (''UK slang ), tall story, whopperReferences
* ----plumped
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(head)plump
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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.
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Noun
(en noun)- a plump of trees, fowls, or spears
- To visit islands and the plumps of men. — Chapman.