英语词汇“plummy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

plum /plum/

noun

An oval drupe or stone-fruit with juicy, sweet-tasting yellowish flesh and typically a purple skin when ripe, or the tree producing it (Prunus domestica or related species) of the rose family

Extended to various fruits and trees more or less similar (eg sapodilla plum, coco-plum, date plum)

A raisin as a substitute for the true plum

Plum-colour

A sugar-plum

A big stone embedded in concrete

Something choice that may be extracted (sometimes in reminiscence of Jack Horner) or attained to, such as one of the best passages in a book, one of the prizes of a career, or a government office as a reward of services, etc

Formerly, a sum of £100000

Its possessor

adjective

Plum-colour

Choice, cushy

ORIGIN: OE plūme, from L prūnum; cf Gr prou(m)non

plummˈy adjective

Full of plums
Plum-like
Desirable, profitable
(of voice) unusually rich and resonant, or, loosely, affectedly drawling, esp as thought characteristic of upper-class speech
(of a person) with a plummy voice, loosely, upper-class

plumˈ-blossˈom noun

plumˈ-cake noun

A cake containing raisins, currants, etc

plumˈ-colour noun and adjective

Deep reddish-purple

plumˈcot noun

A hybrid between plum and apricot, developed by US horticulturalist Luther Burbank (1849–1926)

plumdamas /-däˈməs/ noun (Scot)

A damson

plum-duffˈ noun

A boiled flour pudding made with raisins

plumˈ-porrˈidge noun

An antiquated dish, of porridge with plums, raisins, etc

plum-puddˈingˈ noun

An English national dish made of flour and suet, with raisins, currants, and various spices

plumˈ-stone noun

plum tomato noun

A large somewhat plum-shaped Italian variety of tomato