stumpy — Dictionnaire anglais

Adjectif

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

   Exemples

   Plus d’exemples (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.

   Exemples

   a stumpy forest

Nom

1. An amputee who has lost a leg.

   Usage

   • dénombrable
   • argot
   • indénombrable

   Synonymes

   limby

   Exemples

   Plus d’exemples (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.

   Usage

   • désuet
   • argot
   • indénombrable

   Exemples

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

Adjectif

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

   Synonymes

   chunkydumpylow-setsquatsquatty

   Exemples

   some people seem born to be square and chunky

   a dumpy little dumpling of a woman

   Plus d’exemples (4)

   dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears

   a little church with a squat tower

   a squatty red smokestack

   a stumpy ungainly figure