plumper
adjective
Meaning
- Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
- Fat.
- Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
- One who plumps or swells out something else.
- That which plumps or swells out something else.
- Hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks.
- In elections, a vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are to be elected, thus giving him or her the advantage over the others; a person who gives his or her vote thus is said to plump, or to plump his or her vote.
- A voter who plumps his or her vote.
- A downright, unqualified lie.
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