dumpy

3 definitions found

dumpy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Dumpy \Dump"y\, a. [Compar. Dumpier; superl. Dumpiest.] [
     1. From Dump a short ill-shapen piece.
  
     2. From Dump sadness.]
  
     1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately
        stout.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Sullen or discontented. See 2nd dump[1]. [Prov. Eng.]
        --Halliwell.
        [1913 Webster]

dumpy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dumpy
      adj 1: resembling a garbage dump
      2: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy
         musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky";
         "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long
         lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a
         squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly
         figure" [syn: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat,
         squatty, stumpy]
      3: short and plump [syn: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby,
         roly-poly]

dumpy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "dumpy":
     Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated,
     blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky,
     corpulent, distended, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, fat,
     fattish, fleshy, formless, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy,
     imposing, incipient, lusty, meager, meaty, midget, nanoid, obese,
     overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy,
     puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, pygmy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund,
     rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scraggy, scrubby, shapeless,
     shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, snub-nosed, square, squat, squattish,
     squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby,
     stumpy, stunted, swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy,
     tubby, turned-up, undersize, undersized, unformed, well-fed,
     wizened