fat vs plump

fat

adj
  • Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin. 

  • Bountiful. 

  • Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. 

  • Fertile; productive. 

  • Thick; large. 

  • Of a role: significant; major; meaty. 

  • Rich; producing a large income; desirable. 

  • Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food). 

  • Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball. 

  • Bulbous; rotund. 

noun
  • Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts. 

  • A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue. 

  • That part of an organization deemed wasteful. 

  • A fat person. 

  • The best or richest productions; the best part. 

  • A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids. 

  • An erection. 

  • A beef cattle fattened for sale. 

  • A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe) 

plump

adj
  • Fat. 

  • Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight. 

  • Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright. 

adv
  • Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly. 

noun
  • The sound of a sudden heavy fall. 

  • A group of geese flying close together. 

verb
  • To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily. 

  • To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. 

  • To give a plumper (kind of vote). 

  • To give (a vote), as a plumper. 

  • To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once. 

  • To grow plump; to swell out. 

  • To favor or decide in favor of something. 

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