An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/plump

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, P
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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2524644An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, P — plumpJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

plump, adjective, ‘plump, unwieldy, coarse,’ Modern High German only, from Low German and Dutch plomp, ‘thick, coarse, blunt’ hence in Swiss pflumpfig, with the High German permutation); from Dutch the word seems to have passed into English and Scandinavian as plump. The term plump was originally an imitation of sound.