What is plump?

More definitions of "plump":

• (verb): Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise.
  Synonyms: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down

• (verb): Make fat or plump.
  Example: "We will plump out that poor starving child"
  Synonyms: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump out, fatten out, fatten up

• (verb): Drop sharply.
  Synonyms: plummet

• (verb): Give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number.
  Synonyms: go

• (adv): Straight down especially heavily or abruptly.
  Example: "The anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water"

• (noun): The sound of a sudden heavy fall.

Famous quotes containing the word plump:

“But my greatest delight is to take a good bite
At a calf that is plump and delicious;
And if I indulge in a bite at a bulge,
Let’s hope you won’t think me too vicious.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“...they seem embarrassed by their own stupid beauty./Erect, with those decorous irridescent [sic] rings/around their throats and eyes,/theirs is the plump strut of royalty/parading dutifully among the poor.”
—Deborah Digges (b. 1950)

“the plump of my belly, the
hollow of your
groin, as a constellation,
how it leans from earth to
dawn in a gesture of
play....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)