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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STUMPY, a.
1. Full of stumps.
2. Hard; strong. [Little used.]
3. Short; stubby. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (stumpier; -est) Date: 1600 1. short and thick ; stubby 2. full of stumps

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (stumpier, stumpiest) short and thick. Derivatives: stumpily adv. stumpiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Stumpy things are short and thick. Does this dress make my legs look too stumpy? ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

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