All 6 Uses of
plumb
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- Oh, she was plumb deef en dumb, Huck, plumb deef en dumb—en I'd ben a-treat'n her so!†
Chpt 23
- Oh, she was plumb deef en dumb, Huck, plumb deef en dumb—en I'd ben a-treat'n her so!†
Chpt 23
- We got her half way; and then we was plumb played out, and most drownded with sweat.†
Chpt 38 *
- He's plumb crazy, s'I; it's what I says in the fust place, it's what I says in the middle, 'n' it's what I says last 'n' all the time—the nigger's crazy—crazy 's Nebokoodneezer, s'I.†
Chpt 41
- So there I had to stick plumb until daylight this morning; and I never see a nigger that was a better nuss or faithfuller, and yet he was risking his freedom to do it, and was all tired out, too, and I see plain enough he'd been worked main hard lately.†
Chpt 42
- And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to run him down the river on the raft, and have adventures plumb to the mouth of the river, and then tell him about his being free, and take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.†
Chpt Last
Definitions:
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(1)
(plumb as in: it is plumb) exactly vertical or straight
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, plumb can also be sued as a verb to refer to doing plumbing. It can also refer to the weight at the end of a line that is used to see if something is straight. Finally, it can be used as an intensifier, as when someone expresses that they are tired by saying, "I'm plumb wiped out." The last use may also be spelled like the fruit (plum).