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▪ I. plumper1|ˈplʌmpə(r)|
[f. plump v.2 + -er1.]
That which plumps or makes plump. a. A small light ball or disk sometimes carried in the mouth, for the purpose of filling out hollow cheeks.
1690Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 189 And that the cheeks may both agree, Plumpers to fill the cavity. 1697tr. C'tess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 120 With one blow of her fist she not only made several of her Teeth leap out of her Mouth, but also two little Cork plumpers, which served to fill out her hollow Jaws. 1710Steele Tatler No. 245 ⁋2 Two Pair of brand-new Plumpers, Four Black-lead Combs, Three Pair of fashionable Eye-brows. 1755Connoisseur No. 77 ⁋1 Vamped up for show with paint, patches, plumpers, and every external ornament that art can suggest. 1905Dial 16 Feb. 116/2 She..was charged by some of the ladies at the summer boarding house where we met with wearing ‘plumpers’ in her cheeks.
†b. A contrivance for expanding the skirts; a bustle or hoop, a pannier. Obs.
1749E. Montagu Lett. (1813) III. 86 Old Mrs. Ashley has added a yard of whalebone to her plumpers merely on his account.
c. A preparation for causing hides to plump.
1903L. A. Flemming Pract. Tanning xxii. 375 Quebracho is not a good plumper, and for this reason some material is necessary to plump the leather. Ibid. 376 Quebracho, being a sweet tan, is not of itself a plumper.
▪ II. plumper2|ˈplʌmpə(r)|
[f. plump v.1 or adv.]
1. a. An act of plumping, as into water, or to the ground; a fall from a horse.
1810Splendid Follies II. 138, I had such a plumper off the old mare the first time I went out! Ibid. III. 79 After my plumper, the animal made for the woods.
†b. slang. A heavy blow. Obs.
1764–72T. Bridges Homer Travest. 378 (Farmer) Gave me a plumper on the jaw, And cry'd: Pox take you! 1796Sporting Mag. VIII. 145 Which was immediately followed by a plumper just under the right eye.
2. a. [Cf. plump a.2 2, and plump adv. 4.] A vote given solely to one candidate at an election (when one has the right to vote for two or more). Also attrib. plumper vote.
1785Grose Dict. Vulg. T. s.v. Plump, A plumper, a single vote at an election. 1813W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXV. 427 C, who splits none of his votes, will have seven supporters. The majority falls to the lot of the candidate [C] whose adherents give plumpers. 1843Le Fevre Life Trav. Phys. I. i. v. 95 They shall not have my vote..; you shall have a plumper. 1853Lytton My Novel xi. xiii, If canvassing for yourself alone, you could not carry a sufficient number of plumper votes. 1894J. K. Fowler Recoll. Old Co. Life i. 8 An old printed document..giving..the number of plumpers, or single votes, polled for each candidate.
b. A voter who ‘plumps’. rare.
1818in Todd Suppl. 1832Geo. Eliot in Cross Life I. 28 The numerous plumpers..being constantly interrupted in their endeavours to go to the hustings.
3. a. A downright lie. (Cf. cracker, whacker, etc.) vulgar. ? Obs.
1812Salem (Mass.) Gaz. 26 Nov. 3/3 A Plumper.—The Gazette..states [etc.]... A more barefaced falsehood never was published. a1814He must be married i. i. in New Brit. Theatre IV. 234, I will propose you to him—I shall tell him a few plumpers. 1828–32Webster, Plumper,..a full unqualified lie. (In vulgar use.) Hence in mod. Dicts.
b. colloq. An unusually large example of its type; a whopper. ? Obs.
1881Punch 1 Oct. 155/1 Lovers of England..can hardly do better than help to fill that Purse, which Mr. Punch hopes will prove a ‘plumper’.
4. attrib. plumper line, a rope used by divers in making their descent.
1896Strand Mag. XII. 349/1 The [pearl-divers'] descent is made by means of a rope called the plumper line. 1896Daily News 14 Nov. 6/7 Three or four of these [descents] were spent in restoring the plumper-line, which Diver May finally secured to the ring of the trap-door of the specie tank.
▪ III. ˈplumper3
[f. plump n.1 or v.3]
A machine for sowing seed in ‘plumps’ or clumps.
1844Stephens Bk. Farm III. 788 The drill-sowing machines..are designated in Scotland plumpers, from their dropping their gifts on one point. 1854Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XV. i. 110 They are..dibbled by a machine called a plumper or sown in shallow drills by the hand. |