plumply

plump +‎ -ly

plumply (comparative more plumply, superlative most plumply)

1. unreservedly; fully

   Quite plumply, forgot the appointment.

   Synonyms: roundly, plainly

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XVII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, OCLC 844076792, section PART III, page 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.

   • 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter 12.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, OCLC 639975898:

     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.

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