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Stumpy \Stump"y\, a.

1. Full of stumps; hard; strong. [1913 Webster]

2. Short and thick; stubby. [Colloq.]

"A stumpy little man." --J. C. Harris. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

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

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

 

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]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

 

Stumpy \Stump"y\, a.

1. Full of stumps; hard; strong.

2. Short and thick; stubby. [Colloq.]

``A stumpy little man.'' --J. C. Harris.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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