stumpy
adjective
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”
Origin
From stump + -y.
Phrases
- stump up
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