adjective
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short and thickset like a stump; stubby
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abounding in or full of stumps
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Etymology
Origin of stumpy
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Kerewin is a memorable heroine, a chain-smoking, stumpy, frizzy-haired genius of a woman who can outfight, outfish and outwit anyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The palm-sized creatures have silky golden locks, no eyes, a stumpy tail and flipper-like hands.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024
An herbivore that was loosely related to horses, the statue looked something like a horse with stumpy snout.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
He reached into Hideg’s stash of percussion instruments and kept rhythm on cowbell and a set of stumpy sticks called claves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
‘And a short stumpy tail grows out of your back just above your bottom. There is no cure for ratitis. I ought to know. I’m a doctor.’
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
Some of the bones belonged to the already-discovered Steropodon galmani, a shorter, stumpier and toothier ancestor of the platypus.
From BBC ● May 27, 2024
While this tower leans in one direction, its stumpier partner tilts in another, forming what the developer optimistically calls “a dance of sleek giants”.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2019
One of the two would climb to the top of the totem pole this week, but the pole seemed stumpier than usual.
From Time Magazine Archive
In addition, Aeronautical Engineer Mark Drela designed an extra-thin wing that provides 30% more aerodynamic lift than stumpier conventional wings.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a pity, for she was the stumpier of the two.
From The Arbiter A Novel by Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell
But now they were skirting one of the longest and stumpiest stone walls in feudal England, and all of a sudden it parted in twin turrets joined by triple gates.
From The Crime Doctor by Ernest William Hornung
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