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Monday Muddle: plumb, plum

LC December 27, 2021 Monday Muddle

How many of you had plum pudding for Christmas? Was it plum plum pudding? It probably wasn’t plumb plum pudding.

Monday Muddle: plum: (noun) a fruit; the tree that grows the fruit; (adjective) ideal; highly desirable; a reddish-purple colour plumb: (adjective) to be perfectly vertical; to be perpendicular to the base; (noun) commonly referred to as a plumb bob; a weight (traditionally lead) on a piece of string; (verb) to measure the depth of a body of water; to test or adjust the verticality of a structure The verb to plumb can also mean to connect to a plumbing system, or to work as a plumber.
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