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PLUMPING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plumping mean?
• PLUMPING (adjective)
The adjective PLUMPING has 1 sense:
1. very large; of exceptional size for its kind
Familiarity information: PLUMPING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very large; of exceptional size for its kind
Context example:
won by a plumping majority
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Context examples
I could hear as well as see that brandy-faced rascal Israel Hands plumping down a round-shot on the deck.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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