English

Adverb

plumply

1. Without reserve; fully; roundly; plainly.
   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Chapter XVII, Part III, p. 219,

     He was plumply pleased by salutes on the street from unknown small boys; his ears were tickled to ruddy ecstasy by hearing himself called "Colonel;" and if he did not attend Sunday School merely to be thus exalted, certainly he thought about it all the way there.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 12,

     Now Billy […] had some of the weaknesses inseparable from essential good-nature; and among these was a reluctance, almost an incapacity of plumply saying no to an abrupt proposition not obviously absurd, on the face of it, nor obviously unfriendly, nor iniquitous.

2. With plumpness, in a plump way.
   • 1986, William Trevor, "Kathleen's Field" in The Collected Stories, New York: Viking, 1992, p. 1254,

     She lifted her night-dress over her head and for a moment caught a glimpse of her nakedness in the tarnished looking-glass—plumply rounded thighs and knees, the dimple in her stomach.

References

• plumply in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913