Plummy

Please, I'm looking for native British speakers, or people who have lived in the UK for a long time. I really don't want to hear what the dictionary says, but how it's used in real life (if it's still used at all).

I'm not even sure it's spelled "plummy" but I know I've heard something like "And he has this plummy accent that just makes us melt."

I though I understood it, but I don't think I do. I thought it meant "rich, upper-class" but is that right?

Thanks

Yes; a "plummy accent" is the accent that actors adopt when they want to convey "Edwardian country house in the 1920s".

You do still hear the phrase; I wonder myself whether it's related to e.g. "talks as if he had a plum in his mouth".

MrP

That's interesting – I'm more used to "a plum job".

(Which does, I admit, sound a little like one of those mysterious services my spam offers me daily.)

MrP

Is there something a little derogatory about both phrases, though? I'm not sure...