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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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sturdy
English
Etymology
From Middle English sturdy, stourdy, stordy (“bold, valiant, strong, stern, fierce, rebellious”) (perhaps influenced by Middle English sture, stoure, stor (“strong, robust, harsh, stern, violent, fierce, sturdy”); see English stour), from Old French estourdi (“dazed”), form of estourdir, originally “to daze, to make tipsy (almost drunk)” (Modern French étourdir (“to daze, to make tipsy”)), from Vulgar Latin *exturdire. Latin etymology is unclear – presumably it is ex- + turdus (“thrush (bird)”), but how this should mean “daze” is unclear. A speculative theory is that thrushes eat leftover winery grapes and thus became drunk, but this meets with objections.
Disease in cows and sheep is by extension of sense of “daze”, while sense of “strongly built” is of late 14th century, and relationship to earlier sense is less clear, perhaps from sense of a firm strike (causing a daze) or a strong, violent person.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?st??di/
- (US) IPA(key): /?st?rdi/
- Rhymes: -??(r)di
Adjective
sturdy (comparative sturdier, superlative sturdiest)
- Of firm build; stiff; stout; strong.
- 1657, Henry Wotton, Characters of some Kings of England
- He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy then dainty.
- 1657, Henry Wotton, Characters of some Kings of England
- Solid in structure or person.
- (obsolete) Foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn.
- This must be done, and I would fain see / Mortal so sturdy as to gainsay.
- October 28, 1705, Francis Atterbury, a sermon
- A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first steps.
- Resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality.
Synonyms
- hardy
Translations
Noun
sturdy (uncountable)
- A disease in sheep and cattle, caused by a tapeworm and marked by great nervousness or by dullness and stupor.
Synonyms
- gid
Derived terms
- sturdied
Translations
References
- sturdy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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