Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

plump

/plʌmp/ adjective, verb, adverb, noun, proper noun

Forms plumper plumpest plumps plumping plumped

  1. adjective Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight. “a plump baby; plump cheeks”
  2. adjective Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
  3. adjective (wine) Of a wine: giving the sensation of filling the mouth.
  4. verb (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out. “Her cheeks have plumped.”
  5. verb (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. “to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water”
  6. verb (intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
  7. verb (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
  8. verb (intransitive) To favor or decide in favor of. [with for ‘something’]
  9. verb (transitive) To cast or let drop (something) all at once, suddenly and heavily. “to plump a stone into water”
  10. verb (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
  11. adverb Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
  12. noun The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
  13. noun (obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd. “a plump of trees, fowls, or spears”
  14. noun (collective) A group of ducks or geese migrating, or sometimes other groups of birds.
  15. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

round slump plummet plank flump plonk plop plunk plump down plunk down fatten fat flesh out fill out plump out fatten out fatten up go chubby embonpoint

Etymology

From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump. Cognate with Saterland Frisian plump (“plump”).

From Middle English plumpen, akin to Middle Dutch plompen, Middle Low German plumpen, German plumpsen.

Inherited from Middle English plump.

Borrowed from North German Plump, a nickname from plump (“crude, clumsy”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks. Shak.
  2. noun A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears. [Obs.]
  3. verb To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
  4. verb To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once."Dulcissa plumps into a chair." Spectator.

Etymology [OE. plomp rude, clumsy; akin to D. plomp, G., Dan., & Sw. plump; probably of imitative origin. Cf. Plump, adv.]

Etymology [Cf. D. plompen, G. plumpen, Sw. plumpa, Dan. plumpe. See Plump, a.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “plump”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “plump” (best matches first).