snubby — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A revolver with a barrel length of 3 inches (76.2 mm) or less.

   Synonyms

   snubnosed revolver

   Examples

   Accessories for this version of the SP101 are not as diverse as those available for the five-shot snubby, but excellent add-ons are available.

Adjective

1. Short, stumpy.

   Synonyms

   snub

   Examples

   Both have mottled legs, Both have snubby noses, Both have—Here the host Kindly interposes:

   Well, for more than five years that was me—an alert young chap with a round, pink, snubby kind of face and butter-coloured hair […]

   More examples (2)

   Armed with snubby flintlock and limber blade, Weaver does his crime busting in London during the second decade of the 18th century.

   There was not much of it: the wheelbase was only ninety inches and the track precisely half of that, with a little cast-iron side-valve engine of 918cm² cowering in the depths beneath the snubby bonnet.