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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DUMPY, a. Short and thick.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: resembling a garbage dump
2: 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]
3: short and plump [syn: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby, roly-poly]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (dumpier; -est) Etymology: English dialect dump lump Date: 1750 1. being short and thick in build ; squat 2. shabby, dingy • dumpily adverb • dumpiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (dumpier, dumpiest) short and stout. Derivatives: dumpily adv. dumpiness n. Etymology: dump (cf. DUMPLING) + -Y(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dumpy Dump"y, a. [Compar. Dumpier; superl. Dumpiest.] [ 1. From Dump a short ill-shapen piece. 2. From Dump sadness.] 1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout. 2. Sullen or discontented. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as dumpy, you mean they are short and fat, and are usually implying they are unattractive. ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Short and thick (in person), squat.

Moby Thesaurus

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