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Definition of Plump down
1. Verb. Drop heavily.
2. Verb. Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise. "There plump down some children in the rocking chair"; "He planked himself into the sofa"
Generic synonyms: Place Down, Put Down, Set Down
Derivative terms: Plonk
Definition of Plump down
1. Verb. (intransitive) To sit down heavily onto a seat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plump Down
Literary usage of Plump down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern Literary Messenger (1850)
"But soon she would come plump down upon the ground because she wai nothing but
a chicken, and it is not the nature of a chicken to soar. ..."
2. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1867)
"Doctrine of Fraternity, out of old Catholicism, does, it is true, very strangely
in the vehicle of a Jean-Jacques Evangel, suddenly plump down out of its ..."
3. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1908)
"But just so do all creeds, intentions, customs, knowledges, thoughts and things,
which the French have, suddenly plump down; Catholicism, Classicism, ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Doctrine of Fraternity, out of old Catholicism, does, it is true, very strangely
in the vehicle of a Jean-Jacques Evangel, suddenly plump down out of its ..."
5. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"Doctrine of Fraternity, out of old Catholicism, does, it is true, very strangely
in the vehicle of a Jean-Jacques Evangel, suddenly plump down out of its ..."
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