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Meaning of STUMPY

Pronunciation:  'stumpee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [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"
 
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 Synonyms: chunky, dumpy, low-set, short, squat, squatty
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Stump"y\, a.
1. Full of stumps; hard; strong.
2. Short and thick; stubby. [Colloq.] ``A stumpy little
   man.'' --J. C. Harris.
 

 

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