stumpy — قاموس الإنجليزية

صفة

1. Like or resembling a stump; short and cut off.

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   “That’s better. Gilbert Goodie! I should have known it was you. The one-legged layabout. The uni-ped idler. The stumpy skiver. Stealing coins from a wishing well now, are we? You couldn’t make it up!”

2. Full of stumps.

   أمثلة

   a stumpy forest

اسم

1. An amputee who has lost a leg.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • لغة دارجة
   • غير معدود

   مرادفات

   limby

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Many of the cricketers were amputees, yet they were not without resources. The "wingies" did the running for the "stumpies," and the "stumpies" did the batting for the "wingies."

2. Money.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور
   • لغة دارجة
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   Down with the stumpy; a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.

صفة

1. short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature

   مرادفات

   chunkydumpylow-setsquatsquatty

   أمثلة

   some people seem born to be square and chunky

   a dumpy little dumpling of a woman

   أمثلة إضافية (4)

   dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears

   a little church with a squat tower

   a squatty red smokestack

   a stumpy ungainly figure