dumpy — Английский словарь

Прилагательное

1. Short and thick; stout or stocky.

Существительное

1. A short, stout person or animal, especially one of a breed of very short-legged chickens.

   Примеры

   Yet I don't like dumpies either, and Brown says she is little and stout—the better fitted for a wiry, starved-looking chap like you.

2. A small bottle of beer.

   Употребление

   • South-Africa

   Примеры

   Lager-style beer comes in cans or dumpies (small bottles) for around US$1.10.

   Другие примеры (1)

   “Once you start drinking you have many friends drinking with you,” the University of Johannesburg student explained. “I drink whiskey and I drink beer. I drink heavily on weekends but during the week I have about three or four dumpies. I don’t pass out. I just get drunk,” he said.

Прилагательное

1. Of or relating to a garbage dump; rubbishy.

   Примеры

   "I knew it!" Barry screeched. "A dump bike for the dummy. Hey, dumpy boy. Dumper! Ha, haaaaaaaaagh!"

   Другие примеры (1)

   At first, I had no idea you had money, and you didn't seem like a snoot. The place where you were renting was a dumpy place. When you turned out to have money, I was surprised.

   On the other side of the walls was a dumpy, trash-ridden street of the IZ, not far from an old government building of Saddam Hussein.

Существительное

1. Synonym of dump truck (“prominent buttocks”).

   Употребление

   • сленг

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (1)

   When her animation students at Kansas City Art Institute kept asking why the moms in Pixar have dump-truck asses, Bona Bones […] knew she had to share the answer beyond just the classroom. That’s how she found herself making a TikTok to directly answer the question: “Why do all Pixar moms have such huge dumpies?”

Прилагательное

1. resembling a garbage dump

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

   Синонимы

   chunkylow-setsquatsquattystumpy

   Примеры

   some people seem born to be square and chunky

   a dumpy little dumpling of a woman

   Другие примеры (4)

   dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears

   a little church with a squat tower

   a squatty red smokestack

   a stumpy ungainly figure

3. short and plump

   Синонимы

   podgypudgytubbyroly-poly