Stumpy

3 definitions found

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

  Stumpy \Stump"y\, a.
     1. Full of stumps; hard; strong.
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     2. Short and thick; stubby. [Colloq.] "A stumpy little man."
        --J. C. Harris.


        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stumpy
       adj : 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},
              {dumpy}, {low-set}, {squat}, {squatty}]
       [also: {stumpiest}, {stumpier}]

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

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "stumpy":
     bandy, bandy-legged, blemished, bloated, blocky, bowlegged, cash,
     chubby, chunky, club-footed, couchant, crouched, debased, defaced,
     deformed, depressed, disfigured, dumpy, dwarfed, fat, flat,
     flatfooted, grotesque, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped,
     knee-high, knock-kneed, knocked flat, laid low, low, low-built,
     low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured,
     malformed, marred, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen,
     monstrous, mutilated, neap, out of shape, pigeon-toed, podgy,
     prone, pudgy, pug, pug-nosed, pugged, rachitic, recumbent,
     retrousse, rhino, rickety, rocks, runty, scratch, shekels, short,
     simous, smash, snub-nosed, squat, squattish, squatty, stocky,
     stooped, stubbed, stubby, stuff, sugar, supine, swaybacked,
     talipedic, thick-bodied, thickset, truncated, tubby, turned-up,
     unelevated, wampum