stumpy — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Tính từ

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

   Ví dụ

   Thêm ví dụ (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.

   Ví dụ

   a stumpy forest

Danh từ

1. An amputee who has lost a leg.

   Cách dùng

   • đếm được
   • tiếng lóng
   • không đếm được

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   limby

   Ví dụ

   Thêm ví dụ (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.

   Cách dùng

   • không còn dùng
   • tiếng lóng
   • không đếm được

   Ví dụ

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

Tính từ

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

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   chunkydumpylow-setsquatsquatty

   Ví dụ

   some people seem born to be square and chunky

   a dumpy little dumpling of a woman

   Thêm ví dụ (4)

   dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears

   a little church with a squat tower

   a squatty red smokestack

   a stumpy ungainly figure