Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Filled with plums.
- adj. Smelling or tasting of plums.
- adj. Choice; desirable: a plummy leading role; a plummy job.
- adj. Exceedingly or affectedly mellow and rich: a plummy voice.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of plums or excellences; hence, good; desirable.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of plums
- adj. informal desirable; profitable; advantageous
- adj. of a voice rich, mellow and carefully articulated, especially with an upper-class accent
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. colloq. Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. very desirable
- adj. (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich
Examples
“The only explanation he could think of was that messages had been left on his phone by an executive's assistant, who had a voice which could be described as "plummy".”
“She has a voice that could only be described as plummy.”
The Wall Street Journal: Grieving Parents Testify on Hacking
“She would leave charming, joking messages ... and she had a voice that can only be described as plummy," he said.”
“And she had a voice that can only be described as plummy, Grant testified.”
“She would leave charming, joking messages ... and she had a voice that can only be described as 'plummy,'" he said.”
“He said the story was not only untrue but "bizarre" and the "penny dropped" when he realised that an assistant at a production company associated with Warner who "had a voice that can only be described as plummy" often phoned him to leave work-related messages.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“I'm guilty, often, of "plummy," but chocolate, wine, brandy, honey, and soufflés are some of the comestibles and potables I've most often heard invoked in performance reviews.”
“It's kind of plummy at times...though I don't think that's the issue other people have with it.”
“This beautiful high concept is mushed up with a lot of relatively standard issue faeries and goddesses and so forth, and then the actual book winds up in that kind of plummy tone that you get when everyone assures each other of the Land and its Wisdom and yadda yadda yadda, in between bouts of self-righteous posturing argumentation and life-affirming pagan sex.”
“His enthusiasm was boundless and clearly shared by Mr Felipe "plummy" Fernández-Armesto who ended the programme comparing the constitution with a frog – warts and all.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plummy’.
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A Second Helping of Random Palavery
A continuation of my first list, "A Serving of Random Palavery". Like the first, this list contains words that catch my attention, ring happily in my ears, are fun to speak, or are interesting to ...
bouffoir, mossberry, webisode, barquette, brochidodromous, festooned brochid..., eucamptodromy, eucamptodromous, loment, keenings, moss-trooper, mosstrooping and 138 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 547 more...
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roseandivy's list
mooncalf, wonted, gibbet, artless, noontide, blithe, glitterati, vorpal, soporific, moxie, pilfer, betwixt and between and 263 more...
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good words
words that are mostly fun to say or just lovely
undulate, voluptuous, whimsy, parse, dank, cerulean, peen, traipsing, listless, coup de grace, reconnoiter, mercurial and 499 more...
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catpita's Words
malarkey, bugaboo, mezuzah, pulchritude, mollify, whirligig, uxorious, nacreous, extirpate, nictitate, doddle, fussbudget and 19 more...
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hernesheir (adj): 1. full of or brimming with plums.
2. presenting a great opportunity or opportunities, as in a position, hence desirable. Jan 6, 2009