plim

Meanings

adjectiveplim (comparative more plim, superlative most plim)

comparative more plim · superlative most plim

verbplim (third-person singular simple present plims, present participle plimming, simple past and past participle plimmed)

present singular third person plims · participle present plimming · participle past plimmed · past plimmed

South WalesTo swell or inflate; to fill up.
"Don't that make your bosom plim?"
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 32

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