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plummy

[pluhm-ee] / ˈplʌm i /
ADJECTIVE
fruity
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At one point, Melanie Field, who plays Sonya, mocks the plummy British sound of Bonneville’s Vanya.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

“I’ve been a garden-variety political commentator for most of my career,” he said in a plummy Sydney drawl.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2024

The result is a plummy affair, a proper figgy pudding baked out of once-stale Scotland Yard tropes.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

Forget every store-bought version: This is deeply plummy, pleasantly sour, possibly citrusy, with a slight spicy bite.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

“Wish I’d brought a brolly,” she drawled in the plummy, educated tones of the Oxbridge colleges.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

The accent might have been plummier, but his position has been remarkably consistent, even though he has faced mockery, saying that people thought his views were "bonkers".

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026

Her diction is pungent; the tone has her familiar echoey depth — far plummier than Schwarz’s Brangäne — if fewer sumptuous colors.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

Derek shut his eyes, adopted a plummier version of a Scouse accent and claimed to be a spitfire pilot.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2011

In “Slow Horses,” those with the plummiest accents are almost always the least trustworthy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024

In 10 Years of Location, Location, Location on Channel 4 tonight, television's plummiest pair present "a nostalgic evening of property-themed viewing."

From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2010

So far, this hasn't been the plummiest of fall TV seasons.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a curious but exhilarating experience to hear the Bohemians, the playboys of Central Europe, interpreted in the roast-beef-and-plum-pudding style of the Philharmonic at its beefiest and plummiest.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06 by Sir Owen Seaman




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