plump

英 [plʌmp] 美[plʌmp]

CET6+TEM4GRETOEFLCET6低频词常用词汇

第三人称单数: plumps;过去式: plumped;过去分词: plumped;现在分词: plumping;名词: plumpness;

1. -ump 表示“有突出感”.
2. lump: 肿块，疙瘩.
3. plump: 丰满的(漂亮的突出).
4. hump: 驼峰.

plump 丰腴的，丰满的

词源同低地德语plumpen,荷兰语plompen,扑通声，落水，可能为拟声词。引申词义重的，大块的，后词义褒义化，形容女人丰腴的，丰满的。

plump (adj.): late 15c., "blunt, dull" (in manners), from Dutch plomp "blunt, thick, massive, stumpy," probably related to plompen "fall or drop heavily" (see plump (v.)). Meaning "fleshy, of rounded form" is from 1540s in English. Danish and Swedish plump "rude, coarse, clumsy" are from the Low German word and represent a different sense development.
plump (v.1): c. 1300, "to fall or strike with a full impact," common Low German word, from or related to Middle Dutch and Dutch plompen, East Frisian plumpen, Middle Low German plumpen, probably more or less imitative of something hard striking something soft. Hence plump (n.) "a firm blow," in pugilism usually one to the stomach.
To plump; to strike, or shoot. I'll give you a plump in the bread basket, or the victualling office; I'll give you a blow in the stomach. [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," London, 1785]

Or, even if any of them should suspect me, I know how to bring myself off. It is but pretending to be affronted, stripping directly, challenging him to fight, and before he can be on his guard, hitting him a plump in the bread-basket, that shall make him throw up his accounts; and I'll engage he will have but very little stomach to accuse me after. ["The Reverie: or A Flight to the Paradise of Fools," London, 1763]
plump (v.2): "to become plump," 1530s, from plump (adj.). Meaning "to plump (something) up, to cause to swell" is from 1530s. Related: Plumped; plumping.

1. Alexandra looked plump and awkward in her cast-off clothing.: 亚历山德拉穿着那身过时的衣裳，显得臃肿笨拙。

2. I think Tessa should plump for Malcolm, her long-suffering admirer.: 我想特莎应该选择长期默默爱慕她的马尔科姆。