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plumper | plumped |

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

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(head)
  • (plump)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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]
  • Synonyms

    * (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, whopper

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    plumped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (plump)

  • 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.
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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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