Plummy

The only explanation he could think of was that messages had been left on his phone by an executive's assistant, who had a voice which could be described as "plummy". ❋ Unknown (2011)

"She has a voice that could only be described as plummy." ❋ Paul Sonne (2011)

"She would leave charming, joking messages ... and she had a voice that can only be described as plummy," he said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He said the story was not only untrue but "bizarre" and the "penny dropped" when he realised that an assistant at a production company associated with Warner who "had a voice that can only be described as plummy" often phoned him to leave work-related messages. ❋ Gordon Rayner (2011)

And she had a voice that can only be described as plummy, Grant testified. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"She would leave charming, joking messages ... and she had a voice that can only be described as 'plummy,'" he said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I'm guilty, often, of "plummy," but chocolate, wine, brandy, honey, and soufflés are some of the comestibles and potables I've most often heard invoked in performance reviews. ❋ Anne Midgette (2011)

It's kind of plummy at times...though I don't think that's the issue other people have with it. ❋ ScentScelf (2009)

This beautiful high concept is mushed up with a lot of relatively standard issue faeries and goddesses and so forth, and then the actual book winds up in that kind of plummy tone that you get when everyone assures each other of the Land and its Wisdom and yadda yadda yadda, in between bouts of self-righteous posturing argumentation and life-affirming pagan sex. ❋ Princeofcairo (2006)

"What are the perceived divergences and why do they matter?" asked Felipe "plummy" Fernández-Armesto. ❋ Richard (2005)

I'm not db, but I don't think so. "plummy" seems to be a british expression for a certain kind of "upper class" accent characterized by (I think) simultaneous slow and indistinct articulation (as if one had a plum in one's mouth?) ❋ Unknown (2005)

His enthusiasm was boundless and clearly shared by Mr Felipe "plummy" Fernández-Armesto who ended the programme comparing the constitution with a frog – warts and all. ❋ Richard (2005)

But then you could see where Mr Felipe "plummy" Fernández-Armesto was coming from with the patronisingly trivial title: "Is this a modern European Bill of Rights or an alien Bill of Frights?" ❋ Richard (2005)

With these words he put down the dish, with the 'plummy' end of the pudding turned towards himself. ❋ Various (1873)

But she was no foghorn yesterday, as she introduced Gordon Brown at Labour's manifesto launch with has been described as a "plummy" accent. ❋ Will Heaven (2010)

He was out on Monday flapping his lips with the kind of plummy platitudes you'd expect from semantically challenged mental health workers, not from a Treasury Secretary. ❋ Unknown (2008)