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plumply en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English plump Middle English -ly English -ly English plumply From plump + -ly.

Meanings

1. Unreservedly; fully.
   • Quite plumply, forgot the appointment.
   • 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. 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XVII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section PART III, page 219:
   • 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. 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
2. With plumpness, in a plump way.
   • 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, published 1992, page 1254:

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Synonyms

plainly · roundly