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 238 Fluff, Fluffy, or Floffy. Soft and spongy like a dried up turnip. ^'Feeling pluffy" means poorly, '^out of sorts." Flum. Anything soft and springy, as a pillow, cushion, &c., also leavened, as ^Hhe dough is plum." A Cornishman would not say mud was plum, yet if he fell on it he would say that '' he fell plum," To " To plum up," is to swell up like leavened dough which is then said to be '^plum" or ^' light." '^ To plum up " also means the resumption of the former state after pressure is removed, as of a pillow which pillow, is to ^'plum up," the bed, or pillow, i.e., render them soft. The word ])lura meaning elsewhere £100,000, or a ^'nice plum," was formerly spelt plumb, and refers to one who is, ^^ pretty well off for ^m." Tin by the ancient Eomans was called plumbum album. Plumcin is the Celtic Cornish word for the fruit plum, and pJom or plobm for lead. Fluminill. The yeast mixed with the flour for leav- ening, is called so. Foam. To pummel, to thump, to beat, ^^poamen well," (Paume, the palm of the hand. Chaucer.) Foaming. A pummelling. Fock. A push, a shove. PoCj or Pock is Celtic Cornish. See Poof. Foddlin. Poking about, meddling.
 * ^fall plum'^ is understood as contrary to ^' fall hard."
 * ' plums up" again. The shaking up of a bed, or a