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Meaning of 'stumpy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Stumpy [ a.]
- Full of stumps; hard; strong.
- Short and thick; stubby.

Meaning of 'stumpy' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . stumpy [ s]
Meaning (1):
- short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
Example in sentence:
  • a dumpy little dumpling of a woman;
  • a little church with a squat tower;
  • a squatty red smokestack;
  • a stumpy ungainly figure;
  • dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears;
  • some people seem born to be square and chunky

Nearby Words:

stub stubbed stubbedness stubbiness stubbing stubble stubbled stubbly stubborn stubby

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