plumply
English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for plumply in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Adverb
plumply (comparative more plumply, superlative most plumply)
- Without reserve; fully
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Chapter XVII, Part III, p. 219,
- He was plumply pleased by salutes on the street from unknown small boys; his ears were tickled to ruddy ecstasy by hearing himself called "Colonel;" and if he did not attend Sunday School merely to be thus exalted, certainly he thought about it all the way there.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 12,
- Now Billy […] had some of the weaknesses inseparable from essential good-nature; and among these was a reluctance, almost an incapacity of plumply saying no to an abrupt proposition not obviously absurd, on the face of it, nor obviously unfriendly, nor iniquitous.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Chapter XVII, Part III, p. 219,
- With plumpness, in a plump way.
- 1986, William Trevor, "Kathleen's Field" in The Collected Stories, New York: Viking, 1992, p. 1254,
- She lifted her night-dress over her head and for a moment caught a glimpse of her nakedness in the tarnished looking-glass—plumply rounded thighs and knees, the dimple in her stomach.
- 1986, William Trevor, "Kathleen's Field" in The Collected Stories, New York: Viking, 1992, p. 1254,
References
- plumply in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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