Plum

The dough plums well (Devonshire). Rises well, and will not be heavy.

The cake is nice and plum (Devonshire). Light. (Plump, swelled out.)

He is worth a plum. The Spanish pluma means both plumage and wealth. Hence tiene pluma (he has feathered his nest). We arbitrarily place this deside-ratum at £100,000, and the man who has realised only £50,000 has got only half a plum. “Either a plum or a plumstone”—i.e. “Aut Cæsar aut nullus.”