Sunday Word: Plumptious

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plumptious [pluhmp-shuhs ]

adjective:
(informal) plump and delicious

Examples:

She says plumptious beauties, I say grapes. She says lambent puce, I say pink. She says. "Heady wafts of serenity-inducing scent", I say, "What stinks?" (Janelle Koenig, Janelle Koenig: Sweet serving of Queen Nigella, The West Australian, December 2015)

Everything is bespoke, with highly-polished chrome fittings, varnished wood, plumptious chairs, and high-end decor with tasteful pastel shades fighting for your attention wherever your deck shoes take you (Dean Mellor, The best of the western Mediterranean on board newly-refurbished Marella Voyager, Yorkshire Evening Post, August 2023)

Ken would have felt humbled - he would have said it was tattyfilarious, plumptious and "I'm totally discomknockerated." (Eleanor Barlow, Mural tributes to Sir Ken Dodd unveiled in Liverpool, Belfast Telegraph, March 2020)

It was like seeing some dreamy fruit at the point of optimum, plumptious juiciness. (A A Gill, To America with Love)

Origin:

Portmanteau of the words plump and scrumptious (Urban Dictionary)