stumpy
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4.7
- adjective
- /ˈstʌm.pi/
- So for a while we wandered around a marina near Virginia Beach full of sailboats and fat, stumpy cabin cruisers.
- stumpy legs
- stumpy tail
- stumpy arms
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- And ditch the baggy jeans, all right, because the baggy jeans, they're going to make you look super stumpy short.
Examples
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The orange hairball came waddling forward on four stumpy legs.
Fiction book (2001) -
The Land Cruiser passed through a grove of low, stumpy palm trees.
Fiction book (1990) -
Bubbe held up a stumpy finger in warning.
Fiction book (1992) -
Deeber's short, stumpy legs carried him out the door of the one-time cafe and into the street.
Fiction book (1991) -
Deeber had a reasonably normal skull, narrow shoulders, a long twisted spine, and short stumpy legs.
Fiction book (1991) -
Maggie's stumpy tail instantly roused the old dog to a barking frenzy.
Fiction book (1993) -
Out here, nothing but stumpy cactus, tumbleweeds, and a few old dry bones, provender unfit for the dead.
Fiction book (2000) -
The short, stumpy tree trunk lay on the ground, covered in moss.
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She admired the stumpy legs of the little table, which gave it a rustic charm.
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The dog had a stumpy tail that wagged happily whenever it saw its owner.
Synonyms
14
3.4
Short and thick in shape, with a strong, solid look
5
5.0
Short and thick in build, often making a person or animal look clumsy
1
5.9
Being short and low with a thick, sturdy shape
1
4.6
Short and wide, low to the ground
Antonyms
How Stumpy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stumpy comes from stump plus the ending -y. A stump is the short, thick part of a tree left after it is cut, so stumpy means 'like a stump' or 'short and thick'.