Thesaurus / plummy
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But it is easy to overdo the plummy tone, which is apt to become cloying.
A warm plummy odor filled the whole house, for Priscilla was cooking in the kitchen.
ANNE OF THE ISLANDLUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
The plummy little dark-eyed one, Will—not that shrill little fiend.
IT NEVER CAN HAPPEN AGAINWILLIAM DE MORGAN
And besides we are going to give her half of that big plummy fruit cake Mother sent us from home.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY SHORT STORIES, 1896 TO 1901LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
With these words he put down the dish, with the 'plummy' end of the pudding turned towards himself.
CHATTERBOX, 1906VARIOUS
There might be Guava jelly, and a plummy cake, For such a prize I'd laugh to scorn a stomach-ache!
WORDS RELATED TO PLUMMY
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