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stumpy


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Stumpy  \Stump"y\,  a. 
  1.  Full  of  stumps;  hard;  strong. 
 
  2.  Short  and  thick;  stubby.  [Colloq.]  ``A  stumpy  little 
  man.''  --J.  C.  Harris. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  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}] 




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