Notes And Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853
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KEYS is at aloss for the origin of the word _plum_, as used in Devonshire. Surely it isthe same word as _plump_, although employed in a somewhat different sense. _Plum_ or _plump_, as applied to a bed, would certainly convey the idea ofsoftness or downiness. As to the employment of the word as a verb, Iconceive that it is analogous to an expression which I have often heardused by cooks, in speaking of meat or poultry, "to plump up. " A cook willsay of a fowl which appears deficient in flesh, "I...t is a young bird; itwill plump up when it comes to the fire. " A native of Devonshire wouldsimply say, "It will plum. " As to the word _clunk_, it is in use throughout Cornwall in the sense of"to swallow, " and is undoubtedly Celtic. On referring to Le Gonidec's_Dictionnaire Celto-Breton_, I find "_Lonka_, or _Lounka_, v. A. _avaler_. " I have neither a Welsh dictionary nor one of the ancient Cornish languageat hand, but I have no doubt that the same word, with the samesignification, will be found in both those dialects of the Celtic, probablywith some difference of spelling, which would bring it nearer to the word_clunk_.
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KEYS is at aloss for the origin of the word _plum_, as used in Devonshire. Surely it isthe same word as _plump_, although employed in a somewhat different sense. _Plum_ or _plump_, as applied to a bed, would certainly convey the idea ofsoftness or downiness. As to the employment of the word as a verb, Iconceive that it is analogous to an expression which I have often heardused by cooks, in speaking of meat or poultry, "to plump up. " A cook willsay of a fowl which appears deficient in flesh, "I...t is a young bird; itwill plump up when it comes to the fire. " A native of Devonshire wouldsimply say, "It will plum. " As to the word _clunk_, it is in use throughout Cornwall in the sense of"to swallow, " and is undoubtedly Celtic. On referring to Le Gonidec's_Dictionnaire Celto-Breton_, I find "_Lonka_, or _Lounka_, v. A. _avaler_. " I have neither a Welsh dictionary nor one of the ancient Cornish languageat hand, but I have no doubt that the same word, with the samesignification, will be found in both those dialects of the Celtic, probablywith some difference of spelling, which would bring it nearer to the word_clunk_.
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