Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Filled with plums.
- adjective Smelling or tasting of plums.
- adjective Choice; desirable.
- adjective Exceedingly or affectedly mellow and rich.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of plums or excellences; hence, good; desirable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of
plums - adjective informal
desirable ;profitable ;advantageous - adjective of a voice
rich ,mellow and carefullyarticulated , especially with anupper-class accent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective very desirable
- adjective (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich
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Examples
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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".
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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".
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"She has a voice that could only be described as plummy."
Grieving Parents Testify on Hacking Paul Sonne 2011
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"She has a voice that could only be described as plummy."
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"She would leave charming, joking messages ... and she had a voice that can only be described as plummy," he said.
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"She would leave charming, joking messages ... and she had a voice that can only be described as plummy," he said.
NYDN Rss THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2011
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"She would leave charming, joking messages ... and she had a voice that can only be described as plummy," he said.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By JILL LAWLESS 2011
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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 Gordon Rayner 2011
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And she had a voice that can only be described as plummy, Grant testified.
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"She would leave charming, joking messages ... and she had a voice that can only be described as 'plummy,'" he said.
hernesheir commented on the word plummy
(adj): 1. full of or brimming with plums.
2. presenting a great opportunity or opportunities, as in a position, hence desirable.
January 6, 2009