The Clue
Well-padded (5 letter answer)
The Answer
PLUMP
Tags
Notes
The answer PLUMP is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1300 puzzles.
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Chubby
Pleasingly zaftig
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Ready for market, as a chicken
Like a Thanksgiving turkey
Definition
PLUMP as a noun:
1. the sound of a sudden heavy fall
PLUMP as a verb:
1. (plummet, plump) = drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted"
2. (plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump) = set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa"
3. (fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up) = make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
4. (plump, go) = give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates"
PLUMP as an adjective:
1. (buxom, chubby, embonpoint, plump, zaftig, zoftig) = euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies"; "pleasingly plump"
PLUMP as an adverb:
1. straight down especially heavily or abruptly; "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water"