[ UK /stˈʌbi/ ]
[ US /ˈstəbi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. short and blunt
    a stubby pencil
    stubby fingers
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How To Use stubby In A Sentence

  • They are weird stubby boats, and you have to do a lot more work to propel and keep them on a straight course through the water.
  • More sweat fell down his stubby chin as he tried to avert his eyes away from her steady gaze.
  • A bobcat is another wild cat, about half the size of a cougar, with a stubby tail rather than a long one.
  • Around the circular pit were crowded all the races of Garden, or rather, all those races which had not been ex­terminated resisting the evil Wizards: the hooded Druids, brachiate tree dwellers from the Great Forest, a band of fuzzies in their bright orange robes, many lizard soldiers hissing and laughing and shouting, stubby little Marsh Folk, and hundreds of mutants. Prayers To Broken Stones
  • Since neither Jewel nor Corvi had anything more than a set of stubby, carefully filed down nails, Zhaneel laughed. The White Gryphon
  • All sorts of pasta can be used, from thin sheets of lasagne to stubby penne or rigatoni.
  • Within these lines she made little dots at the top and bottom of stubby perpendicular strokes, and strange interlineal hieroglyphics, and sweeping curves, all of which would have puzzled an The Place of Honeymoons
  • A good 1500 meters stretched from the stubby bow back to the equally stubby stern.
  • An enormous cardboard cutout of a short, stubby penguin lay on the ground, the beady black eyes staring up at her dumbly. MINUTES TO BURN
  • Now she set the figure on a pedestal, a blank-faced, bulgy-eyed little goat gazing into space, its wide stubby tail sweeping over its back while it grasped a large baseball in its hand; a sort of ghoulish beauty now emanated from the figure. Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
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