[1750–60; plump1 + -ish1]This word is first recorded in the period 1750–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Yankee, infiltrate, permeability, summation, swish-ish is a suffix used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense of “belonging to”(British; Danish; English; Spanish); “after the manner of,” “having the characteristics of,” “like” (babyish; girlish; mulish); “addicted to,” “inclined or tending to” (bookish; freakish); “near or about” (fiftyish; sevenish)
Examples of 'plumpish' in a sentence
plumpish
For one thing, that miniaturised heel makes all but the most streamlined of calves look on the plumpish side.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
They are plumpish, pink birds about as big as a starling, with a jaunty, swept-back crest.