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UK
/stˈʌmpi/
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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
How To Use stumpy In A Sentence
- She took the stopper out of the bottle and placed it on the small table next to the stumpy candle.
- Music for evil stumpy Russian men to dance to while wearing budgie smugglers and pretending they're being fellated. This week's new singles
- Lanchon was in his fifties, an ugly baldheaded stumpy legs and a greedy, twitching mouth.
- A Glikkun youth with no teeth and no feet or calves, on his stumpy knees in a box, begging. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
- a stumpy ungainly figure
- He's stumpy and swarthy, with a quick mind and aptitude for getting in trouble. Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud: Book summary
- There are filmy ferns, and more jagged ferns, ferns which look like moss, and the stumpy Mexican tree fern, Cybotium scheidei, which never grows very tall.
- She looked at the hand, strong, stumpy and black, and she knew it was the hand of authority. GWENDOLEN
- But, to my surprise, there was my dog, wagging her stumpy little tail and walking over to greet me.
- Stumpy had nothing to do but pull them in and "slat" them off as fast as they could. The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock