Plum
[plʌm]
Definition
(noun.) a highly desirable position or assignment; 'a political plum'.
(noun.) any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit.
(noun.) any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone.
Edited by Francine--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.
(n.) A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.
(n.) A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.
Typed by Howard
Definition
n. a well-known stone fruit of various colours of the natural order Rosace: the tree producing it: the best part of all: a sum of ?00 0 a handsome fortune.—ns. Plum′-cake a cake containing raisins currants &c.; Plum′-duff a flour-pudding boiled with raisins.—adj. Plum′my full of plums: desirable.—ns. Plum′-porr′idge an antiquated dish of porridge with plums raisins &c.; Plum′-pudd′ing a national English dish made of flour and suet with raisins currants and various spices.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Plums, if they are green, unless seen on trees, are signs of personal and relative discomfort. To see them ripe, denotes joyous occasions, which, however, will be of short duration. To eat them, denotes that you will engage in flirtations and other evanescent pleasures. To gather them, you will obtain your desires, but they will not prove so solid as you had imagined. If you find yourself gathering them up from the ground, and find rotten ones among the good, you will be forced to admit that your expectations are unrealized, and that there is no life filled with pleasure alone.
Editor: Ramon
Unserious Contents or Definition
A fruit that ripens and falls from the Political Tree—but only after careful grafting.
Typist: Tabitha
Examples
- Next instant, with a loud shout of triumph he held up one splinter, in which a round, dark object was fixed like a plum in a pudding. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We will have roast pheasants and porter, plum-pudding and French wine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They'll make you sick, says Mamma to the young person who offers his services in the kitchen with unfailing regularity on plum-pudding day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Then out ran Miss Bradley, like a large, soft plum in her dark-blue suit. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- So was the plum pudding, which melted in one's mouth, likewise the jellies, in which Amy reveled like a fly in a honeypot. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Please not a seed-cake, but a plum-cake. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Roast beef and plum-pudding for every one. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Against cakes: how cakes are bad things, especially if they are sweet and have plums in them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Couldn't you--didn't you--now, if it had rained sugar-plums, or three-cornered raspberry tarts, or anything of that sort! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is needless to say that all the caveats are not quite so full of plums, but this is certainly a wonder. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Sasha