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词汇 plumpness
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Definition of plumpness in English:

plumpness

noun ˈplʌmpnəsˈpləmpnəs
mass noun
  • 1The quality of having a full rounded shape.

    the plumpness of the peaches
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They are known as coffee cherries for their plumpness and ripe red colour.
    • Reaching out he grasped the berry noticing it's plumpness, he tried his best to pluck it.
    • These flowers have a plumpness which denies them the typical daintiness of February's fair maids.
    • Judging from the sweet perfume of the raspberries and the plumpness of the currants they'd obviously just been picked.
    • In another, tidy rows of young vegetables are being trickle-hosed into plumpness.
    Synonyms
    fat, fatness, chubbiness, stoutness, dumpiness, portliness, fleshiness, corpulence
    informal tubbiness, pudginess, porkiness
    British informal podginess
    rare embonpoint
    1. 1.1 A person's quality of being rather fat; chubbiness.
      she grew up being teased for her plumpness
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Nyasha's female relatives prize plumpness, delighting in their round hips and recognizing that the heavier one is, the better off her family is.
      • The goatee has survived but the puppyish plumpness of his face has been replaced by chiselled planes.
      • In addition to difficulties in finding a spouse, plumpness may also lessen sexual activity.
      • For all his plumpness Tuck was no mean opponent at the game.
      • Plumpness in a wife was a virtue, a sign of health and wealth.
      • Plumpness is still considered desirable today.
      • I remember photographs of my mother in her teens, a small girl given to plumpness, her pale face round, her lips thin.
      • She grew up being teased for her plumpness, starved and binged and wept her way through adolescence.
      • I admired the lovely plumpness of her belly and her swollen boobs.
      • She will get far if she is not hampered by her natural inclination to plumpness.
      • In the 19th century, plumpness was regarded as a sign of wealth.
      • This cultural difference in body weight preference may have reflected the documented tendency for plumpness to be considered attractive in food-scarce areas.
      • In many feminine bodies we still recognize the trail of plumpness - a special charm of the past days.
      • He had an adolescent plumpness, a soft body, almost effeminate, with pale saggy legs.
      • A certain degree of plumpness doesn't necessarily mean that people die young.
      • Genetics, physiology and molecular biology - the high-tech hopes for reversing the so-far-unstoppable trend toward plumpness in America.
      • During the Tang Dynasty, people regarded plumpness as beautiful because emperors liked plump beauties.
      • He complimented the women on their beauty, and the babies on their numbers and their plumpness.
      • Fat teenagers rejoice, you can now blame your parents and the first five years of your life for your plumpness.
      • Indeed, despite their diminutive size, his figurines (they are primarily female) often had hourglass shapes that hinted at plumpness and fertile futures.

Definition of plumpness in US English:

plumpness

nounˈpləmpnəsˈpləmpnəs
  • 1The quality of having a full rounded shape.

    the plumpness of the peaches
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They are known as coffee cherries for their plumpness and ripe red colour.
    • These flowers have a plumpness which denies them the typical daintiness of February's fair maids.
    • In another, tidy rows of young vegetables are being trickle-hosed into plumpness.
    • Reaching out he grasped the berry noticing it's plumpness, he tried his best to pluck it.
    • Judging from the sweet perfume of the raspberries and the plumpness of the currants they'd obviously just been picked.
    Synonyms
    fat, fatness, chubbiness, stoutness, dumpiness, portliness, fleshiness, corpulence
    1. 1.1 A person's quality of being slightly fat; chubbiness.
      she grew up being teased for her plumpness
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Plumpness is still considered desirable today.
      • He had an adolescent plumpness, a soft body, almost effeminate, with pale saggy legs.
      • In addition to difficulties in finding a spouse, plumpness may also lessen sexual activity.
      • She grew up being teased for her plumpness, starved and binged and wept her way through adolescence.
      • In the 19th century, plumpness was regarded as a sign of wealth.
      • I admired the lovely plumpness of her belly and her swollen boobs.
      • Fat teenagers rejoice, you can now blame your parents and the first five years of your life for your plumpness.
      • For all his plumpness Tuck was no mean opponent at the game.
      • I remember photographs of my mother in her teens, a small girl given to plumpness, her pale face round, her lips thin.
      • She will get far if she is not hampered by her natural inclination to plumpness.
      • Indeed, despite their diminutive size, his figurines (they are primarily female) often had hourglass shapes that hinted at plumpness and fertile futures.
      • During the Tang Dynasty, people regarded plumpness as beautiful because emperors liked plump beauties.
      • Nyasha's female relatives prize plumpness, delighting in their round hips and recognizing that the heavier one is, the better off her family is.
      • The goatee has survived but the puppyish plumpness of his face has been replaced by chiselled planes.
      • He complimented the women on their beauty, and the babies on their numbers and their plumpness.
      • In many feminine bodies we still recognize the trail of plumpness - a special charm of the past days.
      • A certain degree of plumpness doesn't necessarily mean that people die young.
      • Plumpness in a wife was a virtue, a sign of health and wealth.
      • Genetics, physiology and molecular biology - the high-tech hopes for reversing the so-far-unstoppable trend toward plumpness in America.
      • This cultural difference in body weight preference may have reflected the documented tendency for plumpness to be considered attractive in food-scarce areas.
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