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plump
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Etymology 1
From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump.
Adjective
plump (comparative plumper or more plump, superlative plumpest or most plump)
- Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
- 1651, Thomas Carew, To my friend G. N. from Wrest
- The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.
- 2015, Anton Chekhov, The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull, e-artnow (?ISBN)
- My ideal is to be idle and to love a plump girl.
- 1651, Thomas Carew, To my friend G. N. from Wrest
- Fat.
- Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
- 1898, George Saintsbury, A Short History of English Literature
- After the plump statement that the author was at Erceldoune and spake with Thomas.
- 1898, George Saintsbury, A Short History of English Literature
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:obese
Antonyms
- See also Thesaurus:scrawny
Translations
Verb
plump (third-person singular simple present plumps, present participle plumping, simple past and past participle plumped)
- (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.
- Her cheeks have plumped.
- (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
- to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water
- to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles
- (transitive) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
- to plump a stone into water
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
- Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction […] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article […]
- (intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
- (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
- (transitive with for) To favor or decide in favor of something.
Etymology 2
From Middle English plumpen, akin to Middle Dutch plompen, Middle Low German plumpen, German plumpfen.
Verb
plump (third-person singular simple present plumps, present participle plumping, simple past and past participle plumped)
- (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
- September 24, 1712, The Spectator No. 492, letter from a prude
- Dulcissa plumps into a chair.
- September 24, 1712, The Spectator No. 492, letter from a prude
Translations
Adverb
plump
- Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
Noun
plump (plural plumps)
- The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
Etymology 3
From Middle English plump.
Noun
plump (plural plumps)
- (obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
References
- plump in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl?mp/
Adjective
plump (comparative plumper, superlative am plumpesten)
- crude, clumsy
- squat, stumpy
Declension
Further reading
- “plump” in Duden online
Irish
Etymology
Onomatopoeic
Pronunciation
- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /p?l???m?p?/
Noun
plump f (genitive singular plumpa, nominative plural plumpanna)
- Cois Fharraige form of plimp
Declension
Derived terms
- plumpaíl
Mutation
Further reading
- "plump" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?p?l?mp]
Adjective
plump
- big and awkward
- base, vulgar
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fay
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: f?, IPA(key): /fe?/
- Homophone: fey
- Rhymes: -e?
Etymology 1
From Middle English feyen, feien, from Old English f??an (“to join, unite”), from Proto-Germanic *f?gijan? (“to join”), from *f?g? (“joint, slot”), from Proto-Indo-European *pa?- (“to fasten, place”). Akin to Old Frisian f?gia (“to join”), Old Saxon f?gian (“to join”), Middle Low German fögen (“to join, add”), Dutch voegen (“to add, place”), Old High German fuogen (“to connect”) (German fügen (“to connect”)), Old English f?n (“to catch”). More at fang.
Verb
fay (third-person singular simple present fays, present participle faying, simple past and past participle fayed)
- To fit.
- To join or unite closely or tightly.
- Model Shipbuilders, 2010:
- I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads.
- Model Shipbuilders, 2010:
- To lie close together.
- To fadge.
Synonyms
- (to join or unite closely): affix, attach, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
Derived terms
- faying surface
Translations
Adjective
fay (comparative more fay, superlative most fay)
- Fitted closely together.
- US Patent Application 20070033853, 2006:
- Under the four outer corners of the horizontal frame platform 22 are four tubular leg sleeves 23 that are fay together one at each outer corner.
- US Patent Application 20070033853, 2006:
Etymology 2
From Middle English fegien, fæien (“to cleanse”), from Old Norse fægja (“to cleanse, polish”), from Proto-Germanic *f?gijan? (“to decorate, make beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *p??-, *p??- (“to clean, adorn”). Cognate with Swedish feja (“to sweep”), Danish feje (“to sweep”), German fegen (“to cleanse, scour, sweep”), Dutch vegen (“to sweep, strike”). More at feague, fake, fair.
Verb
fay (third-person singular simple present fays, present participle faying, simple past and past participle fayed)
- (dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.
Translations
Etymology 3
Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fee (“fairy", "fae”). More at fairy.
Noun
fay (plural fays)
- A fairy.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
- that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
Synonyms
- See fairy
Translations
Adjective
fay (comparative more fay, superlative most fay)
- Fairy like.
See also
- fey
- fae
Etymology 4
Abbreviation of ofay.
Noun
fay (plural fays)
- (US slang) A white person.
Translations
Adjective
fay (comparative more fay, superlative most fay)
- (US slang) White; white-skinned.
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 62:
- I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music.
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 62:
Translations
Anagrams
- FYA, YAF
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English f?g.
Noun
fay
- Alternative form of fou
Etymology 2
From Old English f??e.
Adjective
fay
- Alternative form of fey (“marked for death”)
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