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🤧 Blocked or stuffed 🧑‍🦲 Stubby or unnatural
pluggy

pluggy

9.3
Looking short and awkward with a blunt uneven shape
  • adjective
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  • After the hair transplant, his hairline looked a bit pluggy and uneven.

Examples

  • Her attempt at trimming the bangs left them looking rather pluggy and uneven.

  • The pluggy design of the toy made it hard to hold.

  • The new bushes in the garden appeared pluggy compared to the older, fuller plants.

  • That dress looks pluggy!

  • After the hair transplant, his hairline looked a bit pluggy and uneven.

  • Her attempt at trimming the bangs left them looking rather pluggy and uneven.

  • The new bushes in the garden appeared pluggy compared to the older, fuller plants.

Synonyms

ungainly
vspluggy
4 7.3

Moving or looking awkward and clumsy

focuses on short, stubby, unnatural shape rather than clumsy movement

Antonyms

graceful
87 2.8

Movement that is smooth and attractive like a dancer or swan

sleek
11 3.5

Smooth and shiny like silk or polished wood

How Stubby

bulbous
10 5.5
stumpy
4 4.7
pluggy
9.3
stubby
13 3.7
short
∞ 1.0
slender
7 3.5

Surface Forms

pluggy positive

Morphology

pluggy = plug (transparent) = plug + y

Derived from 'plug' + '-y' with the sense 'having qualities of a plug' (e.g., stubby or awkward), which is a predictable adjectival meaning.

Etymology

Pluggy comes from plug 'stopper' and the ending -y, so it describes something that looks short, stubby or blocky, like a little plug. That's why hair, plants or a trim can look 'pluggy' when they seem awkward and not smooth.