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plumpish

[pluhm-pish] / ˈplʌm pɪʃ /


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In his teens he was a plumpish fraternity president and cheerleader who played in a country and western trio.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2012

She was six, a bossy little person, slightly on the plumpish side, with carefully braided and brightly beaded cornrows hanging down across her eyes.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2012

Ralph Pucci, a maker of abstracts, produced a plumpish mannequin a while back, but sold hardly any.

From New York Times • May 5, 2010

Currently the plumpish, bespectacled priest lives at a Catholic hospital, celebrates mass in its chapel, depends for clothing and pocket money on the $2 or $3 his Chaldeans give in weekly collections.

From Time Magazine Archive

The second newcomer was a red-faced, plumpish man with an almost offensively hearty manner.

From The Unnecessary Man by Martinez




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