What's the difference between plummy and plumy?

Plummy


Definition:

  • (a.) Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In November during his appearance before Leveson, Grant referred to the report, in the Mail on Sunday in February 2007, which said his relationship with his then girlfriend, Jemima Khan, was "on the rocks" because of "persistent late-night phone calls with a plummy-voiced executive from Warner Brothers" – a story he said was "completely untrue".
  • (2) An obscene joke about two highly acclaimed actors – a wildly-bearded Matthew Rhys and an unstoppably plummy Matthew Goode – who’d exploited their star power to get smashed on plonk inside a beautiful Umbrian villa, while getting paid for it.
  • (3) Switching back into that plummy voice again: "'Yah, you're very, very clever, mate, but there's more to life than being clever.'
  • (4) He adopts a plummy, censorious voice: "'You've crossed the quad and you've got your hands in your pockets.
  • (5) Mallya featured in the carrier's in-flight videos, welcoming passengers and boasting in a characteristic plummy drawl of "personally picking" cabin staff and instructing them to treat passengers "as if you were a guest in my own home".
  • (6) Hartley also said that the Mail on Sunday diary and royal editor Katie Nicholl and a freelance journalist "emphatically denied" they had got the story regarding a plummy-voiced female film executive and Grant from phone hacking.
  • (7) Grant also referred to a report in the Mail on Sunday in February 2007, which said his relationship with his then girlfriend, Jemima Khan, was "on the rocks" because of "persistent late-night phone calls with a plummy-voiced executive from Warner Brothers" – a story he said was "completely untrue".
  • (8) Heads of state were charmed by his oddly plummy English vowels – a legacy from his studies at a university in a former hill station beloved of British Raj administrators in India – and his conversation too.
  • (9) To be frank, he looks like a home counties Tory MP clean out of central casting – middle-aged, chinless, with that blend of plummy vowels and flinty eyes peculiar to posh hardline rightwingers.
  • (10) Elsewhere, plummy Chummy (Miranda Hart) is becoming most aggrieved at the prospect of having to corral the district's cub scouts.
  • (11) Some are old or plummy-toned, some have grey hair, some are young and working class, some are anxious suburban commuters.
  • (12) The trailer for the film – featuring only quizzical grunts and alarmed cries from Paddington rather than Firth's drily plummy tones – was recently released, and features the bear fresh from darkest Peru trying to understand bathrooms and the London Underground system.
  • (13) David Sherborne, the counsel representing alleged victims of press intrusion at the inquiry including Grant, asked Leveson whether he would be calling the individual journalists – Nicholl and the freelance – who had supplied the plummy voiced story to testify.
  • (14) Or will Guardians of the Galaxy do for talking trees and anthropomorphic astro-raccoons what The Avengers did for plummy Norse gods and non-jolly green giants?

Plumy


Definition:

  • (a.) Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.

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