plummyadj.²

Brit.

/ˈplʌmi/, U.S.

/ˈpləmi/

Forms: 1700s plumby, 1700s– plummy.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plum n., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < plum n. + -y suffix¹.

1. Consisting of or containing plums, having many plums; suggestive of or resembling a plum or plums, esp. in colour or flavour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [adjective] > of types of stone-fruit

Persic1599

masculine1629

plummy1724

freestone1828

cling1845

ber1860

the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > other purples

mulberry-coloured1787

plum-coloured1799

mulberry1803

amaranthine1808

mauve1833

mauve-colour1859

mauve-coloured1860

mauvish1876

pontifical1880

plummy1885

plum1887

petunia1892

palatinate1893

1724 W. Dawson Brit. Swain 4 Beneath my Pillow laid the plummy Cake.

1759 C. Talbot Let. 27 Nov. in Series of Lett. E. Carter & C. Talbot (1808) I. 448 You have been all your life in a great error in eating that strange jumble of substantives, plumb-cake, when the adverb [sic]plumby is plainly the right thing.

1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. clvii. 164 They do not want the cake to be shorn of its plums. It would not do, to have the ‘plummy stuff’ taken out.

1885 L. F. Day in Art Jrnl. 213/1 The ground of a plummy brown.

1892 Times 25 May 12/2 Extra fine plummy wine..sold well.

1927 J. Masefield Midnight Folk 209 What I come here to see you about wasn't nothing to do with..no raisins, what's plummy or not plummy.

1954 P. Frankau Wreath for Enemy ii. iii. 79 I had to approach my goblet of cider at an angle; my mouth was all plummy from collision with Rougemont's head.

1993 Wine May 13/2 Oddbins..has some of its eminently cellarable 1989 Valley Oaks Cabernet.., a deliciously plummy, tarry wine.

2. Rich, choice, highly desirable; very good, excellent. Cf. plum adj.² 2. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [adjective]

goodOE

winlyOE

snella1000

winc1275

boonc1325

cleana1375

tidya1375

positivea1398

comelyc1400

kindc1400

kindly?a1425

well-formeda1425

trim?a1513

wally?a1513

bonnya1525

delicatea1533

goodlike1562

sappy1563

bein1567

rum1567

benedict1576

warrantable1581

true (also good, sure) as touch1590

goodlisomea1603

respectable1603

clever1738

amusing1753

plummy1787

bone1793

brickish1843

mooi1850

ryebuck1859

spandy1868

greatisha1871

healthy1878

popular1884

beefy1903

onkus1910

quies1919

cushty1929

high-powered1969

not shabby1975

1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 103 Gin I shou'd luck to get a plummy sowd.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 197 Plummy, right; very good; as it should be: expressing your approbation of any act, or event.

1847 R. B. Peake Title Deeds ii. iv. 37 'Pon my sacred davy, this is an extremely plummy apartment.

1890 Tablet 10 May 729 So far from getting anything plummy by becoming Catholics, Anglican clergy~men have often to make great sacrifices.

1930 Punch 11 June 656/1 Of what use to be in a plummy job, a job that should certainly bring promotion..?

1976 New Yorker 26 Jan. 101/1 The atmosphere of Albany remained more elusive than the plummy Victorian coziness of Baker Street.

1991 Daily Tel. 17 Apr. 15/3 The rich generally select life's plummier prizes.

2001 J. Weiner Good in Bed ii. viii. 127 Thrilled in the way that editors are when plummy scoops fall into their laps.

3. colloquial.

a. Of a person's voice, speech, etc.: mellow, deep, resonant, and carefully articulated (in a way associated with the educated English upper classes); (hence) mannered, affected, posh, upper-class. Also occasionally: drawling; indistinct, as though hampered by plums in the mouth (cf. plum n. and adj.² Phrases 1). Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > affected or mincing

finitive1640

pruney and prismatic (or prismy)1857

prunish1877

plummy1881

prunes-and-prism1888

prunes and prismy1931

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > affected or mincing > of speech

minced?1542

haw-haw1841

plummy1881

cultivated1908

pan-loafy1946

pan-loaf1947

1881 Punch 23 July 25/2 The same aged lover was bidding, with rather a ‘plummy’ voice, the More-than-Middle-Aged Heroine ‘good bye for ever’.

1944 C. Beaton Diary 29 Oct. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xv. 152 Johnnie..told in his rich, plummy accent, how one never knew if the ringing of a doorbell portended the last moment of liberty.

1947 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 94 iiia. 446/1 Such distortions can be tolerated..without serious loss of articulation, though the speech will usually sound rather ‘plummy’ and unnatural.

1951 K. Harris Innocents from Abroad 199 The rich, plummy voice of [actor] Edward Arnold.

1955 Times 3 May 14/4 A disc which sounds plummy and muffled in tone.

1970 Daily Tel. 1 Sept. 9/5 All India Radio—modelled..on the BBC, even down to the plummy accents of its announcers.

1977 Early Music 5 549/3 The plummy..tone [of Flemish virginals] is evidently more popular than the musically versatile but astringent Italian virginal.

1994 W. Shaw Spying in Guru Land (1995) ii. 68 He is the perfect picture of the western image of an eastern wise man. Only his plummy, middle-class tones disrupt the picture.

2002 J. Thompson Wide Blue Yonder i. 30 Her mother's fake, plummy telephone voice when she was talking to somebody she wanted something from.

b. Characteristic of or designating a person with a plummy voice or accent; upper-class, aristocratic. Frequently mildly derogatory.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [adjective] > relating to voice

plummy1963

OK yah1985

plum1986

1963 Times 28 June 18/7 Paul Eddington..plays the analyst with a marvellous combination of furtive suspicion, plummy authority, and physical smugness.

1965 Times 23 Apr. 16/5 Roger Booth has created a superbly plummy, cornered Rector.

1977 Time Out 17 June 61/1 When translated—the rather plummy waitresses ‘deliver’ the translation to every table—the result is a good range of imaginative bistro food.

1983 Listener 24 Nov. 38/2 He was both prissy and plummy. He wore a monocle.

1991 A. Carter Wise Children (1992) i. 41 His voice dropped a tone; he adopted a plummy smile and made a half-bow, half-curtsey.

2000 Heat 13 Jan. 71/2 The piffle that pours from the mouths of this selection of senseless snobs and plummy pillocks.

Compounds

plummy-voiced adj.

ΚΠ

1972 Times 30 May 12/8 You are a plummy-voiced, granite-hearted lot of bastards.

1988 Daily Tel. 12 Jan. 10/6 The newsreels, with their portentous, plummy-voiced, super-patriotic commentators,..project an Olympian, establishmentarian, all-knowing image.

2002 Times 7 Jan. i. 5/6 Most of the soldiers are plummy-voiced and wooden.., but then they normally are.

Derivatives

ˈplummily adv. in a plummy voice.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adverb] > in an affected manner

plummily1908

1908 Times 26 Aug. 11/3 He..sang Tristan's ravings less ‘plummily’ than usual.

1972 A. Ross London Assignment 17 ‘Go ahead, old boy,’ he said plummily, ‘He's all yours.’

1991 R. Jenkins Life at Centre viii. 164 He..soon got up to attempt a plummily delivered ex cathedra rebuke.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	plummy
释义	† plummyadj.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plum v., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < plum v. + -y suffix¹. Compare plumminess n.¹ Obsolete. rare. Spongy, porous. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > full of holes > porous plummya1398 porousa1398 hollow1398 sponged1398 spongeous1398 porosea1400 spongiousc1400 pory1535 spongy1578 sponge-like1594 lax1615 porish1652 laxy1716 spongiose1755 spongiform1805 spongeoid1822 spongoid1843 polyporous1858 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 213^v A veer is a tre þat streccheþ in lengþe vpwarde and haþ moche plummy substaunce [L. raritatis in substantia], and smale and þynne moysture. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 225 Þe tree [sc. the beech] is nouȝt ful sad and fast in substaunce, but plummy [1535 pory] and ful of holis [L. rara..et porosa]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018). plummyadj.² Brit. /ˈplʌmi/, U.S. /ˈpləmi/ Forms: 1700s plumby, 1700s– plummy. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plum n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < plum n. + -y suffix¹. 1. Consisting of or containing plums, having many plums; suggestive of or resembling a plum or plums, esp. in colour or flavour. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [adjective] > of types of stone-fruit Persic1599 masculine1629 plummy1724 freestone1828 cling1845 ber1860 the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > other purples mulberry-coloured1787 plum-coloured1799 mulberry1803 amaranthine1808 mauve1833 mauve-colour1859 mauve-coloured1860 mauvish1876 pontifical1880 plummy1885 plum1887 petunia1892 palatinate1893 1724 W. Dawson Brit. Swain 4 Beneath my Pillow laid the plummy Cake. 1759 C. Talbot Let. 27 Nov. in Series of Lett. E. Carter & C. Talbot (1808) I. 448 You have been all your life in a great error in eating that strange jumble of substantives, plumb-cake, when the adverb [sic]plumby is plainly the right thing. 1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. clvii. 164 They do not want the cake to be shorn of its plums. It would not do, to have the ‘plummy stuff’ taken out. 1885 L. F. Day in Art Jrnl. 213/1 The ground of a plummy brown. 1892 Times 25 May 12/2 Extra fine plummy wine..sold well. 1927 J. Masefield Midnight Folk 209 What I come here to see you about wasn't nothing to do with..no raisins, what's plummy or not plummy. 1954 P. Frankau Wreath for Enemy ii. iii. 79 I had to approach my goblet of cider at an angle; my mouth was all plummy from collision with Rougemont's head. 1993 Wine May 13/2 Oddbins..has some of its eminently cellarable 1989 Valley Oaks Cabernet.., a deliciously plummy, tarry wine. 2. Rich, choice, highly desirable; very good, excellent. Cf. plum adj.² 2. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [adjective] goodOE winlyOE snella1000 winc1275 boonc1325 cleana1375 tidya1375 positivea1398 comelyc1400 kindc1400 kindly?a1425 well-formeda1425 trim?a1513 wally?a1513 bonnya1525 delicatea1533 goodlike1562 sappy1563 bein1567 rum1567 benedict1576 warrantable1581 true (also good, sure) as touch1590 goodlisomea1603 respectable1603 clever1738 amusing1753 plummy1787 bone1793 brickish1843 mooi1850 ryebuck1859 spandy1868 greatisha1871 healthy1878 popular1884 beefy1903 onkus1910 quies1919 cushty1929 high-powered1969 not shabby1975 1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 103 Gin I shou'd luck to get a plummy sowd. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 197 Plummy, right; very good; as it should be: expressing your approbation of any act, or event. 1847 R. B. Peake Title Deeds ii. iv. 37 'Pon my sacred davy, this is an extremely plummy apartment. 1890 Tablet 10 May 729 So far from getting anything plummy by becoming Catholics, Anglican clergy~men have often to make great sacrifices. 1930 Punch 11 June 656/1 Of what use to be in a plummy job, a job that should certainly bring promotion..? 1976 New Yorker 26 Jan. 101/1 The atmosphere of Albany remained more elusive than the plummy Victorian coziness of Baker Street. 1991 Daily Tel. 17 Apr. 15/3 The rich generally select life's plummier prizes. 2001 J. Weiner Good in Bed ii. viii. 127 Thrilled in the way that editors are when plummy scoops fall into their laps. 3. colloquial. a. Of a person's voice, speech, etc.: mellow, deep, resonant, and carefully articulated (in a way associated with the educated English upper classes); (hence) mannered, affected, posh, upper-class. Also occasionally: drawling; indistinct, as though hampered by plums in the mouth (cf. plum n. and adj.² Phrases 1). Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > affected or mincing finitive1640 pruney and prismatic (or prismy)1857 prunish1877 plummy1881 prunes-and-prism1888 prunes and prismy1931 the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > affected or mincing > of speech minced?1542 haw-haw1841 plummy1881 cultivated1908 pan-loafy1946 pan-loaf1947 1881 Punch 23 July 25/2 The same aged lover was bidding, with rather a ‘plummy’ voice, the More-than-Middle-Aged Heroine ‘good bye for ever’. 1944 C. Beaton Diary 29 Oct. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xv. 152 Johnnie..told in his rich, plummy accent, how one never knew if the ringing of a doorbell portended the last moment of liberty. 1947 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 94 iiia. 446/1 Such distortions can be tolerated..without serious loss of articulation, though the speech will usually sound rather ‘plummy’ and unnatural. 1951 K. Harris Innocents from Abroad 199 The rich, plummy voice of [actor] Edward Arnold. 1955 Times 3 May 14/4 A disc which sounds plummy and muffled in tone. 1970 Daily Tel. 1 Sept. 9/5 All India Radio—modelled..on the BBC, even down to the plummy accents of its announcers. 1977 Early Music 5 549/3 The plummy..tone [of Flemish virginals] is evidently more popular than the musically versatile but astringent Italian virginal. 1994 W. Shaw Spying in Guru Land (1995) ii. 68 He is the perfect picture of the western image of an eastern wise man. Only his plummy, middle-class tones disrupt the picture. 2002 J. Thompson Wide Blue Yonder i. 30 Her mother's fake, plummy telephone voice when she was talking to somebody she wanted something from. b. Characteristic of or designating a person with a plummy voice or accent; upper-class, aristocratic. Frequently mildly derogatory. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [adjective] > relating to voice plummy1963 OK yah1985 plum1986 1963 Times 28 June 18/7 Paul Eddington..plays the analyst with a marvellous combination of furtive suspicion, plummy authority, and physical smugness. 1965 Times 23 Apr. 16/5 Roger Booth has created a superbly plummy, cornered Rector. 1977 Time Out 17 June 61/1 When translated—the rather plummy waitresses ‘deliver’ the translation to every table—the result is a good range of imaginative bistro food. 1983 Listener 24 Nov. 38/2 He was both prissy and plummy. He wore a monocle. 1991 A. Carter Wise Children (1992) i. 41 His voice dropped a tone; he adopted a plummy smile and made a half-bow, half-curtsey. 2000 Heat 13 Jan. 71/2 The piffle that pours from the mouths of this selection of senseless snobs and plummy pillocks. Compounds plummy-voiced adj. ΚΠ 1972 Times 30 May 12/8 You are a plummy-voiced, granite-hearted lot of bastards. 1988 Daily Tel. 12 Jan. 10/6 The newsreels, with their portentous, plummy-voiced, super-patriotic commentators,..project an Olympian, establishmentarian, all-knowing image. 2002 Times 7 Jan. i. 5/6 Most of the soldiers are plummy-voiced and wooden.., but then they normally are. Derivatives ˈplummily adv. in a plummy voice. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adverb] > in an affected manner plummily1908 1908 Times 26 Aug. 11/3 He..sang Tristan's ravings less ‘plummily’ than usual. 1972 A. Ross London Assignment 17 ‘Go ahead, old boy,’ he said plummily, ‘He's all yours.’ 1991 R. Jenkins Life at Centre viii. 164 He..soon got up to attempt a plummily delivered ex cathedra rebuke. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹a1398adj.²1724
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† plummyadj.1

plummyadj.2

Compounds

Derivatives

† plummyadj.¹

plummyadj.²