What is "plumpish"

Usage examples of "plumpish".

She wore a bottle-green gabardine suit so beautifully cut it did wonders for her somewhat plumpish figure.

The woman was plumpish but her face was lean and her eyes, above notable cheek-bones, were dark and steady.

Lubbock proved to be a plumpish, middle-aged man with a gingery mustache and a thin section of lank hair brushed across a balding skull.

Amsel, and she alone, whom he is permitted at this point to excerpt from the village idyl, for she is the mother of our plumpish Eduard Amsel, who in the course of the first to fourth morning shifts fished beanpoles, roofing laths, and heavy waterlogged rags from the rising Vistula and is now, like Walter Matern, about to be baptized.

They had been embarrassed later and one, a short plumpish Sephardic Jew from New York, had helped Nordstrom with dinner.

The bouncer was back with a short, plumpish fellow with artificial-looking black hair and a darting eye.

We were sitting in a nice little clearing beside the trail, our tents pitched, eating our noodles, savoring the exquisite pleasure of just sitting, when a plumpish, bespectacled young woman in a red jacket and the customary outsized pack came along.

A golden bird, heavy and plumpish, burst out of the knee-high grasses below the road and soared eastward toward the even higher grasses.

One technician was plumpish with a broad mouth, the other razor thin with three vertical blue lines on her right cheek.

Within the same age limits the number of true nymphets is trickingly inferior to that of provisionally plain, or just nice, or “cute,” or even “sweet” and “attractive,” ordinary, plumpish, formless, cold-skinned, essentially human little girls, with tummies and pigtails, who may or may not turn into adults of great beauty (look at the ugly dumplings in black stockings and white hats that are metamorphosed into stunning stars of the screen).