Stumpy \Stump"y\, a.
1. Full of stumps; hard; strong.
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2. Short and thick; stubby. [Colloq.]
"A stumpy little man."
--J. C. Harris.
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stumpy
adj
1: 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, stumpy]
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