What does plum mean in slang?
(slang, usually in the plural) A testicle. [from 20th c.] (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
The actual derivation of this phrase came from a website on phrase origins, which stated: “Tucker” is a colloquial New England word, coined in the early 1800s, meaning “become weary,” and which ultimately derives from the Old English verb “tuck,” meaning to punish or torment.
“Plum” as an adjective means “desirable,” as in “a plum job.” The Dictionary of American Slang says that usage arose around 1825, and may be related to Little Jack Horner and how good and lucky he was to pull “plums” out of pies. By then, the British were already considering something good to be “plummy.”
Informal. entirely; wholly; absolutely. plumb tired out.
Plum refers to a fruit. ”I plum forgot” “ means that “I totally forgot”. It is believed that “plum” is a variant of “plumb” as in a plumb bob, comprising a lead weight attached to a long string to check whether a column or a wall is perfectly vertical. It has a sense of something perfect, i. e. “totally” vertical.
If you say that someone has a plummy voice or accent, you mean that they sound very upper-class. You usually use plummy to criticize the way someone speaks. [British, disapproval]
(bəˈnɑːnəz ) adjective. slang. crazy (esp in the phrase go bananas)
Adjective. plumb crazy (comparative more plumb crazy, superlative most plumb crazy) (informal) Thoroughly crazy; quite mad.
In construction or carpentry, the term plumb refers to a line or feature that is perfectly vertical. In technical design, it represents an imaginary line that runs straight to the center of the earth. Plumb is the counterpart to level, which means to be perfectly horizontal.
Slang for sugar. A term of endearment.
What does the saying Sugar Plum Fairy mean?
Now that we know the sugar plum became an understood symbol for all things sumptuous and saccharine, it's clear why Tchaikovsky appointed the Sugar Plum Fairy as ruler over the Land of Sweets. She is the physical embodiment of joy and compassion – a personification of the sugar plum.
Term of endearment: sweetheart, darling.
The Plumb is a symbol of uprightness of conduct. By understanding the Plumb, a Mason is to judge his Brothers by their own standards and not those of someone else. When the Plumb line is thought of in this way, it becomes a symbol of an upright life and of the conscience by which each person must live.
The adverb has the literal use of "vertically," as in "a rope hanging plumb," but gets applied figuratively and informally too with the meanings "absolutely," as in "plumb wrong," and "exactly," as in "plumb in the middle." Its verb use is mostly limited to two kinds: those to do with the very concrete tasks of ...
Plum: a type of fruit. Plumb: to examine (verb); upright; vertical (adjectives); totally; precisely (adverbs).
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishplump1 /plʌmp/ ●○○ adjective 1 slightly fat in a fairly pleasant way – used especially about women or children, often to avoid saying the word 'fat' The nurse was a cheerful plump woman.
“Plummy and slam” was used as a password. British underworld slang meaning “All right”
In the sense of a voice, because of the supposed similarity to speaking with a plum in one's mouth.
Officially called the peach emoji, the butt emoji was first introduced in 2010 under Unicode 6.0. As its fuzzy, cleft appearance looks like a plump rear end, the peach emoji quickly came to stand for buttocks on social media and in text messages, especially a woman's in sexual contexts.
Coming later is the idea of nuts as crazy; that use was first seen in 1908, in a newspaper comic strip called Mutt and Jeff. To be “off one's nut” meant to be separated from your head, and thus your senses. That eventually was shortened to the current use, in which someone can simply be “nuts.”
What is eggplant slang?
eggplant: (US, slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).
adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A plum job, contract, or role is a very good one that a lot of people would like.
: an uncultivated plum. especially : one of a species (as Prunus domestica or P. americana) that is closely related to or a source of the cultivated plums. : wild prune.
: distraught because of prolonged confinement.
The chemical symbol for lead is Pb, from the Latin word “plumbum” which refers to a malleable metal.