What is the name meaning of PLUM. Phrases containing PLUM
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PLUM
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : of uncertain origin, probably from Middle English metecalf ‘food calf’, i.e. a calf being fattened up for eating at the end of the summer. It is thus either an occupational name for a herdsman or slaughterer, or a nickname for a sleek and plump individual, from the same word in a transferred sense. The variants in med- appear early, and suggest that the first element was associated by folk etymology with Middle English mead ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’.
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Americanized spelling of German Blümle, from a pet form of Blum.English
Americanized spelling of German Blümle, from a pet form of Blum.English : variant spelling of Plumley.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a dealer in feathers, from Middle English, Old French plume ‘feather’ (Latin pluma).English and North German : variant of Plum.Catalan (Plumé) : variant of plomer, occupational name for a worker in lead, from a derivative of plom ‘lead’.
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French
Color of plum.
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English
English : variant of Plum.
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English
English : variant of Sale 1.English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of seals or signet rings, from Middle English, Old French seel ‘seal’ (Latin sigillum).English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of saddles, from Old French seele ‘saddle’.English : nickname for a plump or ungainly person, from Middle English sele ‘seal’ (the aquatic mammal).Americanized form (translation) of Jewish Siegel.
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North German (Plümer) and English
North German (Plümer) and English : variant of Plum, the suffix -er denoting habitation or occupation.Altered form of South German Pflümer, an occupational name for a grower or seller of plums, from an agent derivative of Middle High German pflūme ‘plum’.English : variant of Plummer 1.English and Dutch : occupational name for a dealer in feathers and quills, from an agent derivative of Middle English plume, Middle Dutch pluim ‘feather’, ‘plume’.
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Muslim
Fatty. Plump.
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English
English : habitational name from Plympton in Devon, named in Old English with pl̄me ‘plum tree’ + tūn ‘settlement’, ‘farmstead’. It may also be a variant of Plumpton, from any of several places so named, which have the same etymology.John Plimpton emigrated from England to MA about 1636, becoming one of the original settlers of Deerfield. His descendants included manufacturers of agricultural implements at Plimptonville in the town of Walpole, near the family farm, and a prominent book publisher.
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English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : nickname for a plump person, from Middle English, Old French rond, rund ‘fat’, ‘round’ (Latin rotundus).
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English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : from the medieval female personal name Moll(e), a pet form of Mary (see Marie 1).German : nickname from a dialect term for a plump, stout person.Catalan : nickname for a weak or ineffectual person, from Catalan moll ‘soft’, ‘weak’ (Latin mollis).Dutch : variant of Mol 1.(van Moll) : variant of Mol 2.
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English and North German
English and North German : from Middle English plum(b)e, Middle Low German plum(e) ‘plum’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a plum tree, or a metonymic occupational name for a fruit grower. Reaney and Wilson, however, derive the English name from Old French plomb ‘lead’ (Latin plumbum), regarding it as a metonymic occupational name for a plumber.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Blum.Americanized form of Pflum.
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English
English : from a medieval personal name brought to England by the Normans, of uncertain origin. It may be the Hebrew personal name Lot ‘covering’, which was relatively popular in northern France, or a reduced form of various names formed with the diminutive suffix -lot (originally a combination of -el + -ot), commonly used with women’s names.English : from Middle English lot(t)e ‘lot’, ‘portion’ (Old English hlot), in the sense of an allotted share of land, hence a status name for someone who held such a plot.Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a plumber or lead roofer, from lood ‘lead’.German : from a pet form of Ludwig.German : topographic name from the dialect word lott ‘mud’, ‘dirt’.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places so called, the most likely source of the surname being the one in Cheshire near Knutsford. The place name is derived from Old English plūme ‘plum’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from the Middle English personal name Dodde, Dudde, Old English Dodda, Dudda, which remained in fairly widespread and frequent use in England until the 14th century. It seems to have been originally a byname, but the meaning is not clear; it may come from a Germanic root used to describe something round and lumpish—hence a short, plump man.Irish : of English origin, taken to Sligo in the 16th century by a Shropshire family; also sometimes adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Dubhda (see Dowd).Daniel and Mary Dod, natives of England, emigrated to Branford, CT, in about 1645.
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English
English : from an Old English byname, Budde, which was applied to a thickset or plump person. By the Middle English period it had become a common personal name, with derivatives formed with hypocoristic suffixes, Budecok and Budekin. Reaney derives it from Old English budda ‘beetle’.Shortened form of German Budde.John Budd was one of the free planters who assented to the ‘Fundamental Agreement’ of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.
Girl/Female
Muslim
Fatty. Plump.
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English
English : occupational name for a worker in lead, especially a maker of lead pipes and conduits, from Anglo-Norman French plom(m)er, plum(m)er ‘plumber’, from plom(b), plum(b) ‘lead’ (Latin plumbum).English : variant of Plumer 1, 3.English : occasionally, a habitational name from a minor place name, such as Plummers in Kimpton, Hertfordshire, which was named with Old English plum ‘plum(tree)’ + mere ‘pool’. The name is also established in Ireland, taken there from England in the 17th century.
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Muslim
Plump
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Welsh
Welsh : nickname for a fat man, from tew ‘plump’.English : habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire (Great, Little and Duns Tew), named with an Old English tīewe ‘row’, ‘ridge’. The surname has been established in Ireland since the 16th century.
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pl.
of Plumula
pl.
of Plumularia
imp. & p. p.
of Plump
n.
One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks.
n.
The quality or state of being plump.
a.
To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
a.
Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.
n.
A plumule.
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Plump; fat; sleek.
n.
A voter who plumps his vote.
n.
Any hydroid belonging to Plumularia and other genera of the family Plumularidae. They generally grow in plumelike forms.
pl.
of Plumularia
n.
Any Plumularia. Also used adjectively.
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Relating to a plumule.
n.
A vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are to be elected, thus giving him the advantage over the others. A person who gives his vote thus is said to plump, or to plump his vote.
a.
To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
v. t.
To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
v. t.
To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Plump
v. t.
To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.