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Definition of stumpy in English: stumpyadjectivestumpiest, stumpier ˈstʌmpiˈstəmpi Short and thick; squat. 粗而短的；矮胖的 羸弱而粗短的双腿。 Example sentencesExamples - I could start out by noting that the proportions of this outfit are totally, totally off: the long shirt/cuffed jeans/short boots makes her look outrageously stumpy.
- The scrawny, stumpy plants - in winter a mass of black aimless twigs with a few odd drops of white fiber still clinging to them - is hardly pure or virgin.
- Mrs. Bauer's stumpy frame is shaken by shuddering sobs and her little girl, hanging onto her skirt, looks up with a puckered face, ready to cry with her mother.
- It is topped by a stumpy, Lego-like lighthouse where a keeper and his family lived until 1987, when they were replaced by a light bulb.
- It certainly looks a lot smaller than the lofty Range Rover, but parked next to one its appearance is more stumpy than stunted.
- The tall officer told the short stumpy man to take her son, Jared, somewhere else as he took care of her, himself.
- I saw it, a grin and a nod, from the most senior of them a skinny 15 year old kid with stumpy dreads I exhaled with relief.
- Seabiscuit was a stumpy nag that looked set for the knackery until it was teamed with one-eyed jockey-cum-boxer Red Pollard.
- These days Satch luxuriates in his own back garden and gets plenty of exercise when the babies chase him, trying to grab hold of his stumpy but ever-wagging tail.
- Vines with yawning purple flowers clung to the walls, and thick, stumpy trees guarded the back of the house.
- The hard, leathery tail is short, cylindrical, and stumpy and it is marked by a series of distinct rings.
- But, to my surprise, there was my dog, wagging her stumpy little tail and walking over to greet me.
- His stumpy tail held aloft is unmistakable even in the dark.
- His stumpy fingernails were painted with a shiny clear nail polish with sliver glitter in it…
- I'd pay to see that, though my legs were always too stumpy to make it up the Tower stairs.
- Two figures were silhouetted in the entrance, one short and stumpy, the other tall and lithe.
- I've just drained the last few drops from the bottle, all that remains are the few beads of condensation that cling to the outside of the stumpy brown empty vessel.
- There are filmy ferns, and more jagged ferns, ferns which look like moss, and the stumpy Mexican tree fern, Cybotium scheidei, which never grows very tall.
- Mascara is the great Houdini of the make-up world, transforming lashes from sparse and stumpy to luxurious and lovely.
- You have to try this, he said, pouring me a taste of the Scottish Hendrick's Gin from a cute, dark, stumpy little bottle I had actually been admiring, purely from a visual perspective, earlier.
Synonyms short, stubby, squat, stunted stocky, sturdy, chunky, heavily built, heavyset, solid, thickset, bull-necked informal beefy British informal fubsy
Derivativesadverb The exterior is not its best feature - squat and massive, the cathedral crouches stumpily over the tidy lawns of the Cathedral Close. Example sentencesExamples - The characters themselves are stumpily deformed creatures, which would be fine if they managed to remain in scale.
- The central tower rises stumpily above the roofs of the nave and long chancel.
- There's somehow a very magical feel to a lot of his songs, especially this current favourite, which is, even as I type stumpily and furiously, playing on repeat.
- Livvy nodded and crouched down as the little toddler ran stumpily towards her.
noun A low-cut shoe is enticing and supposedly flattering to the shorter-legged among us, while ankle straps and other lines across the foot cut off the leg and accentuate stumpiness. Example sentencesExamples - The stumpiness of some of the other plants leads me to believe that there is some serious soil issue in parts of the ground in that strip.
Rhymesbumpy, clumpy, dumpy, frumpy, grumpy, humpy, jumpy, lumpy, plumpy, rumpy-pumpy, scrumpy Definition of stumpy in US English: stumpyadjectiveˈstəmpēˈstəmpi Short and thick; squat. 粗而短的；矮胖的 羸弱而粗短的双腿。 Example sentencesExamples - These days Satch luxuriates in his own back garden and gets plenty of exercise when the babies chase him, trying to grab hold of his stumpy but ever-wagging tail.
- There are filmy ferns, and more jagged ferns, ferns which look like moss, and the stumpy Mexican tree fern, Cybotium scheidei, which never grows very tall.
- His stumpy tail held aloft is unmistakable even in the dark.
- Two figures were silhouetted in the entrance, one short and stumpy, the other tall and lithe.
- The tall officer told the short stumpy man to take her son, Jared, somewhere else as he took care of her, himself.
- I saw it, a grin and a nod, from the most senior of them a skinny 15 year old kid with stumpy dreads I exhaled with relief.
- You have to try this, he said, pouring me a taste of the Scottish Hendrick's Gin from a cute, dark, stumpy little bottle I had actually been admiring, purely from a visual perspective, earlier.
- It certainly looks a lot smaller than the lofty Range Rover, but parked next to one its appearance is more stumpy than stunted.
- His stumpy fingernails were painted with a shiny clear nail polish with sliver glitter in it…
- The hard, leathery tail is short, cylindrical, and stumpy and it is marked by a series of distinct rings.
- I could start out by noting that the proportions of this outfit are totally, totally off: the long shirt/cuffed jeans/short boots makes her look outrageously stumpy.
- I've just drained the last few drops from the bottle, all that remains are the few beads of condensation that cling to the outside of the stumpy brown empty vessel.
- Seabiscuit was a stumpy nag that looked set for the knackery until it was teamed with one-eyed jockey-cum-boxer Red Pollard.
- But, to my surprise, there was my dog, wagging her stumpy little tail and walking over to greet me.
- The scrawny, stumpy plants - in winter a mass of black aimless twigs with a few odd drops of white fiber still clinging to them - is hardly pure or virgin.
- Vines with yawning purple flowers clung to the walls, and thick, stumpy trees guarded the back of the house.
- I'd pay to see that, though my legs were always too stumpy to make it up the Tower stairs.
- Mascara is the great Houdini of the make-up world, transforming lashes from sparse and stumpy to luxurious and lovely.
- It is topped by a stumpy, Lego-like lighthouse where a keeper and his family lived until 1987, when they were replaced by a light bulb.
- Mrs. Bauer's stumpy frame is shaken by shuddering sobs and her little girl, hanging onto her skirt, looks up with a puckered face, ready to cry with her mother.
Synonyms short, stubby, squat, stunted
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