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pluhmp

  • n  the sound of a sudden heavy fall
  • v  drop sharply
  • v  set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
  • v  make fat or plump
    We will plump out that poor starving child
  • v  give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
    I plumped for the losing candidates
  • s  sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure;
    pleasingly plump
  • r  straight down especially heavily or abruptly
    the anchor fell plump into the sea
    we dropped the rock plump into the water

  • Not incidentally, he also improves any skimpy eyebrows, plump thighs or detectable pores.
  • No venerable ascetic in flowing white beard and robes, the latest star from the East to hit the guru circuit is a plump, cherubic 14-year-old, lightly mustachioed with peach fuzz .
  • So we can plump it up with these fillers.
News & Articles

  • Delicious/Nutritious: Blackberries with meat and in a pudding treat
    Big, fat blackberries — not too sweet, but plump and delicious. I love them. I love purple tongues and stained fingers.
    June 10, 2013 - Lawrence Journal-World
  • Blueberry buttermilk tea cake
    Makes one 9-inch loaf Big handfuls of fresh blueberries belong in a buttery cake, tender with buttermilk. The dark blue rounds float in this vanilla-scented batter and create juicy pockets of flavor. Their taste seems to concentrate during baking. When blues are fresh and plump, with a beautiful silvery sheen, the little rounds retain their shape and offer a mosaic ...        
    June 9, 2013 - Boston Globe
  • Strawberry delights: Recipes ripe for the picking
    Strawberry fields across the Cape Fear region are filled with plump, juicy red berries. Locally grown strawberries will be available through early July for those scrumptious summer time dishes, such as strawberry shortcake and homemade strawberry ice cream.
    June 9, 2013 - The Fayetteville Observer
Quotes

  • Brendan Barber in Glasgow Evening Times
    He just broke down. Watching my character Meghna in Fashion, he saw his little girl from Jamshedpur going all the way to Mumbai to become Miss World. In fact his sense of identification with that whole portion in Chandigarh where I'm this plump... Priyanka Chopra http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priyanka_Chopra&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEfVLotgIrC_Rlt6_CfECWAFMxynQ Sify http://www.google.com/url?q=http://sify.com/movies/fullstory.php%3Fid%3D14788399&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE_mgEDrCwLX3ToAH8tzjBPqC96_g Nov 1, 2008 75399 101760 plump BRITAIN'S top union boss has hit out at fat cat bosses whose earnings are increasing 17 times faster than average wage rises Brendan Barber, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, warned: Plump felines became fat cats some years ago - now...
  • Bart Scott in Ravens Insider
    Let's see, a fat guy and the fastest guy in the 40,Scott said. "Not fat, I'm sorry. Plump."

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