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UK
/dˈʌmpi/
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[ US /ˈdəmpi/ ]
[ US /ˈdəmpi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
some people seem born to be square and chunky
a little church with a squat tower
a stumpy ungainly figure
a dumpy little dumpling of a woman
a squatty red smokestack
dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears - short and plump
- resembling a garbage dump
How To Use dumpy In A Sentence
- I played with the dumpy stem of the brandy glass, smirking at Ashley through the candle flame.
- Goofy cartoons of older men and women looking tacky and dumpy (thinking stereotypical Miami) in mu mu’s and oversized sunglasses Just Say Don’t—The Sequel (The Boomer Blog)
- Mr. Purvis looked muzzily at the dumpy madonna with the ninnyish smile. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- When riskily was worse addison real estate to go slapdash, the episome nazimova wastrel dumpy zostera. Rational Review
- She was assisted by a familiar, dumpy middle-aged woman whose viridescent tinge owed nothing to her green dress. THE CURSE OF CHALION
- It was somewhat grotesque, all those dumpy women smiling at each other, making marketplace noise. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
- This theme was followed through in the aftermath of that marriage of convenience, as those dumpy princesses found themselves, well, dumped.
- In the grainy surveillance camera footage, the dumpy, mustachioed fellow looks like just one more office peon saddled with a balky computer - until he takes his revenge.
- Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.
- She wasn't quite lean, but she wasn't very dumpy either.