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UK
/dˈʌmpi/
]
[ US /ˈdəmpi/ ]
[ US /ˈdəmpi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
some people seem born to be square and chunky
a little church with a squat tower
a stumpy ungainly figure
a dumpy little dumpling of a woman
a squatty red smokestack
dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears - short and plump
- resembling a garbage dump
How To Use dumpy In A Sentence
- Very soon, a small, dumpy figure in a shaggy brown overcoat appeared, lugging a large sack.
- You see attractive women dating schlumps all the time, but when's the last time you saw a decent looking guy with a dumpy woman?
- A dumpy Japanese is asking for you.
- Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Grace Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.
- a dumpy little dumpling of a woman
- Smallest of the grebes, the little grebe, or dabchick, is considerably rounder and more dumpy than its congeners.
- She described her look for the film as ‘completely unglamorous, almost no make-up, bit of a dumpy potato’.
- A short dumpy woman appeared from behind the counter.
- The little dumpy girl was one of two serving.
- She was a dumpy woman, dressed in black, with a mouth that snapped shut like a mousetrap. SNOWLINE
