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English word origin

Etymology of plump

From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump. Cognate with Saterland Frisian plump (“plump”).

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Source etymology 1

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adj

Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight. · Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright. · Of a wine: giving the sensation of filling the mouth.

verb

To grow plump; to swell out. · To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. · To give a plumper (kind of vote). · To give (a vote), as a plumper.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump. Cognate with Saterland Frisian plump (“plump”).

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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.

  • Inherited-form mentionplumpenm
  • Derivation mentionplompdum
  • Derivation mentionplumpgml
  • Cognate mentionplumpstq · plump

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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗
adv

Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

verb

To cast or let drop (something) all at once, suddenly and heavily. · To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.

noun

The sound of a sudden heavy fall.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From Middle English plumpen, akin to Middle Dutch plompen, Middle Low German plumpen, German plumpsen.

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Source etymology 3

Original entry ↗
noun

A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd. · A group of ducks or geese migrating, or sometimes other groups of birds.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Inherited from Middle English plump.

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