stumpy
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (1)stumpier, stumpiest
- short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature“some people seem born to be square and chunky”“a dumpy little dumpling of a woman”“dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears”“a little church with a squat tower”“a squatty red smokestack”“a stumpy ungainly figure”Synonyms: chunkydumpylow-setsquatsquattyOpposite tallSimilar short, little
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Stump′y adjective
1. Full of stumps; hard; strong.
2. Short and thick; stubby. colloquial “A stumpy little man.” Joel Chandler Harris
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54