plump

英 [pl?mp] 美[pl?mp]

CET6+TEM4GRETOEFLCET6低頻詞常用詞匯

第三人稱單數:?plumps;過去式:?plumped;過去分詞:?plumped;現在分詞:?plumping;名詞:?plumpness;

1. -ump 表示“有突出感”.
2. lump: 腫塊，疙瘩.
3. plump: 豐滿的(漂亮的突出).
4. hump: 駝峰.

plump 豐腴的，豐滿的

詞源同低地德語plumpen,荷蘭語plompen,撲通聲，落水，可能為擬聲詞。引申詞義重的，大塊的，后詞義褒義化，形容女人豐腴的，豐滿的。

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.: 亞歷山德拉穿著那身過時的衣裳，顯得臃腫笨拙。

2. I think Tessa should plump for Malcolm, her long-suffering admirer.: 我想特莎應該選擇長期默默愛慕她的馬爾科姆。