Dumpy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dumpy \Dump"y\, a. [Compar. {Dumpier}; superl. {Dumpiest}.] [
     1. From {Dump} a short ill-shapen piece.
  
     2. From {Dump} sadness.]
  
     1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately


        stout.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Sullen or discontented. See 2nd {dump[1]}. [Prov. Eng.]
        --Halliwell.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dumpy
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {chunky},
               {low-set}, {squat}, {squatty}, {stumpy}]
       2: short and fat [syn: {podgy}, {pudgy}, {tubby}]
       [also: {dumpiest}, {dumpier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "dumpy":
     Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated,
     blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky,
     corpulent, distended, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, fat,
     fattish, fleshy, formless, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy,
     imposing, incipient, lusty, meager, meaty, midget, nanoid, obese,
     overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy,
     puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, pygmy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund,
     rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scraggy, scrubby, shapeless,
     shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, snub-nosed, square, squat, squattish,
     squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby,
     stumpy, stunted, swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy,
     tubby, turned-up, undersize, undersized, unformed, well-fed,
     wizened