Adjective, : a stumpy field. From Dictionary.com.
Of course, then Mayor Gavin Newsom would be called "stumpy". From Wordnik.com. ["The mayor will be the first to admit that he occasionally indulges in bottled water."] Reference
Is it me are does Jessica appear "stumpy" with the extra weght?. From Wordnik.com. [The Superficial - Because You're Ugly] Reference
Your arms look all stumpy, which is funny. From Wordnik.com. [Experimentation With Blur | clusterflock] Reference
I led him to the stumpy field and put him to the plow. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
Douglas was short and stumpy, a regular roly-poly man. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because he's got little stumpy legs. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2009] Reference
Tom just looked at the scarlet-clad, stumpy warrant officer. From Wordnik.com. [Stand by for Mars!] Reference
They seemed stumpy and apologetic, unadorned with any jewelry. From Wordnik.com. [While on Vacation in Rome] Reference
Sordello's grin broadened, showing more stumpy, crooked teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
She walked to it and stood under a stumpy portico, looking out. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
That's why Bruin goes about with a stumpy tail to this very day. From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
The little woman's stumpy white fingers were very motherly, touching. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
He came to the step, his tongue hanging out, his stumpy tail wagging. From Wordnik.com. [At Home with the Jardines] Reference
Its body resembles a huge hogshead perched on four short, stumpy legs. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Its legs were as tail as redwoods, but so wide that they looked stumpy. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
Added to which, she inherits her father's short and somewhat stumpy figure. From Wordnik.com. [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference
Napoleon, and lots of the great men have been short and stumpy and hideous!. From Wordnik.com. [His Big Opportunity] Reference
He was almost sure he could lay his hands on the rabbit's stumpy white tail. From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
This utensil would be troublesome to use in an orchard, or on stumpy ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses] Reference
Only Doug still looked like a little boy, albeit a stumpy and desiccated one. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
Ugly realistic bowpots with stumpy trees decorated the picture in regular order. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
The most delightful little stumpy saints and sacred emblems may be found on the façade of. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
The rest of the body stretched behind in a vaguely caterpillar shape, on eight stumpy legs. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Her stumpy little pencil -- and that, too, seemed always the same -- had to do the transfering. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Hour Stories] Reference
The legs were thick and stumpy, thighs nearly as big around as Whandall's, and covered with feathers. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
So, moving his huge body, and his short, stumpy legs, he prepared to look around and find his supper. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
They were stumpy in stature, and ragged in form for want of cultivation, or perhaps of congenial soil. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
He worked the stumpy wings to be sure they functioned, and stroked the eye ridges and scratched her ears. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon's Kin]
Again Esther noticed those stumpy, abbreviated fingers, so oddly at variance with the rest of their owner. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
The floor of the bothy was strewed with heather, somewhat coarse and stumpy, on which we lay down and slept. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
I always think of raindrops as the underdogs, the frail insurgents of heaven against the stumpy dictatorship of the material. From Wordnik.com. [Truman Compote] Reference
The soft cushioned palms spelled love of luxury, the stumpy, curving fingers and talon-like nails indicated acquisitive greed. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
Huge creatures of great weight with large stumpy legs, or fast runners with narrow dainty hooves became mired in the soft, wet land. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
She and an exercise book, or a few scraps of paper and a stumpy bit of pencil were to be seen sometimes in very close companionship. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
The long, black-striped orange body was there, and the short yellow-eyed head, though a stumpy torso with two muscular arms was between. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
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