[
UK
/plˈʌmi/
]
ADJECTIVE
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very desirable
a plummy leading role -
(of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich
the radio announcer's plummy voice
How To Use plummy In A Sentence
- a plummy leading role
- This easy going, plummy and spicy blend is nice on its own or with a variety of foods.
- Julia Child was a larger than life figure: tall, gangling, rollickingly posh with an extraordinary voice that swooped and swelled and swarmed over its plummy vowels. A Passion for Life « Tales from the Reading Room
- Good, young red Rioja like this, made exclusively from the Tempranillo grape, can and does deliver a joyous light, zesty, plummy, intriguingly chocolatey mouthful.
- His plummy accent, polite demeanour and sartorial elegance remind one of an era when business was conducted at gentlemen's clubs over cigars and port.
- Plummy amused the whole school, over 220 pupils, with tricks and jokes while Ivan performed his unsupported ladder act, which included juggling.
- On the palate it's a middleweight, plummy wine, and the tannins are fairly soft.
- One of the roses presently undergoing trials at Dickson's is a floribunda with petals of deep plummy-purple.
- He is a bit shy and slightly plummy. Times, Sunday Times
- Dr. Moreau forbids violence (but uses it to subjugate his half-animal "" children ''), doesn't eat meat (like Hitler, he's a vegetarian) and speaks with a plummy, overrefined English accent that seems taken from Robert Morley. Brando Plays God