Origin: 1400-1500 Middle Dutch plomp dull, not sharp
Thesaurus
THESAURUSflesh►fat
weighing too much because you have too much flesh on your body: He’s short and fat. I always look so fat in pictures.
►overweight
used as a more polite way of describing someone who is fat: He’s a little overweight.
►big/heavy/large
used as polite ways of describing someone who is big, strong, or fat: His mother was a heavy woman in her fifties. He’s a pretty big guy.
►obese
used about someone who is extremely fat in a way that is dangerous to his or her health: Too many young children are obese these days.
►chubby/pudgy
used about someone who is slightly fat, especially a baby or a child: She was a cute chubby baby.
►plump
used to say that someone is slightly fat in a pleasant way, especially a woman or a child: Their grandmother was a plump, smiling woman.
►tubby
informal used about someone who is short and fat: He was a tubby little man with a bald head.
►flabby
used to describe a part of your body that is too fat and has soft loose skin: I’m trying to strengthen my arms so they’re less flabby.
►stout
used about an adult who is slightly fat: The door was answered by a stout woman in her sixties.
►rotund
formal having a fat round body. Used especially in literature: The actor’s rotund figure makes him perfect for the part of Santa.
►corpulent
formal very fat. Used especially in literature: The director, a corpulent red-faced man, slammed his fist on the table.
1 slightly fat in a fairly pleasant way – used especially about women or children in order to be polite: a plump woman in her fifties► see thesaurus at fat12round and full in a way that looks attractive: plump juicy strawberries [Origin: 1400–1500 Middle Dutch plomp dull, not sharp]—plumpness noun [uncountable]