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▪ I. plumply, adv.1|ˈplʌmplɪ| [f. plump a.1 + -ly2.] To a plump degree, with plumpness.
1611Cotgr., Rondement, roundly, circularly, orbicularly; fully, plumply. 1860Lever One of Them xiv, A long silk purse, plumply filled. 1895Harper's Weekly Feb. 337/2 One of those plumply mellow quadrigenarious bodies. ▪ II. ˈplumply, adv.2 familiar. [f. plump a.2 + -ly2.] 1. Directly, without hesitation or circumlocution, plainly, flatly: = plump adv. 3.
1786F. Burney Diary 8 Aug., I proposed it myself. The offer was plumply accepted. 1822New Monthly Mag. V. 144 The last I contradict plumply. 1874L. Carr Jud. Gwynne I. iv. 130 It's out at last plainly and plumply. 2. With direct impact; full against something: = plump adv. 2.
1846Joyce Sci. Dial. i. xiii. 34, I have sometimes shot my white alley against another marble so plumply, that [etc.]. |