plump

nouns

the sound of a sudden heavy fall

plump

is a type of (narrower)

sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)

"he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"

noise

verbs

drop sharply

"The stock market plummeted"

plummet, plump

set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise

"He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa"

flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down

make fat or plump

"We will plump out that poor starving child"

fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out

give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number

"I plumped for the losing candidates"

go, plump

adjectives

sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure

"a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump";

chubby, embonpoint, plump

is derived from

plumpness

adverbs

straight down especially heavily or abruptly

"the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water"

plump

domain usage

a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

colloquialism