stumpy

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Her elementary nightgown-sort of frock clung to her ancient, stumpy, and floating form.

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  1. Abounding with stumps of trees. We were shaving stumpy shores, like that at the foot of Madrid bend. S. L. Clemens, Life on the Mississippi, p. 134.
  2. Having the character or appearance of a stump; short and thick; stubby; stocky. A pair of stumpy bow-legs supported his squat, unwieldy figure. Poe, King Pest. A thick-set, stumpy old copy of Richard Baxter's “Holy Commonwealth.” J. T. Fields, Underbrush, p. 15.
  3. Ready money; cash. [Slang.] Down with the stumpy; a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half. Kingsley, Alton Locke, ii. (Davies.)

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  • Any shoe with straps around the ankle runs the risk of making your legs look stumpy, but flats are the worst culprit.
  • When they went out I saw one of them was short, stumpy, and grey-haired. —  Maigret in Montmartre - Georges Simenon - 64
  • He was short-legged and fat-armed, thick and stumpy, and clad only with grass about his waist. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • His hair, instead of being short and stumpy, as when the young policeman saw him, was now long, shiny, and carefully brushed over both sides of his forehead, which gave him the appearance so fashionable amongst the saints of the Old Masters. —  The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)
  • It was too late to retire gracefully: she waved her stumpy umbrella at them and advanced purposefully across the forbidden grass—a little like a stumpy umbrella herself with her stocky figure and well-carved head, and dull, but neatly-fitting silk dress. —  Death Of Jezebel - Christianna Brand - Cockrill 04: 1948
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. from stump + -y. Cf. stubby.
  2. from stump, transitive verb, 8.
 

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