Stumpy

Definition

stumpy /'stʌmpi/ adj တုတ္တိုတို။ ပုအိုင့္အိုင့္။ stumpy legs ❍ a stumpy candle/tail.

Examples

1. ‘The tall officer told the short stumpy man to take her son
2. Jared
3. somewhere else as he took care of her
4. himself.’
5. ‘It certainly looks a lot smaller than the lofty Range Rover
6. but parked next to one its appearance is more stumpy than stunted.’
7. ‘You have to try this
8. he said
9. pouring me a taste of the Scottish Hendrick's Gin from a cute
10. dark
11. stumpy little bottle I had actually been admiring
12. purely from a visual perspective
13. earlier.’
14. ‘Seabiscuit was a stumpy nag that looked set for the knackery until it was teamed with one-eyed jockey-cum-boxer Red Pollard.’
15. ‘His stumpy fingernails were painted with a shiny clear nail polish with sliver glitter in it…’
16. ‘But
17. to my surprise
18. there was my dog
19. wagging her stumpy little tail and walking over to greet me.’
20. ‘I'd pay to see that
21. though my legs were always too stumpy to make it up the Tower stairs.’
22. ‘The scrawny
23. 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.’
24. ‘Two figures were silhouetted in the entrance
25. one short and stumpy
26. the other tall and lithe.’
27. ‘I could start out by noting that the proportions of this outfit are totally
28. totally off: the long shirt/cuffed jeans/short boots makes her look outrageously stumpy.’
29. ‘Mascara is the great Houdini of the make-up world
30. transforming lashes from sparse and stumpy to luxurious and lovely.’
31. ‘There are filmy ferns
32. and more jagged ferns
33. ferns which look like moss
34. and the stumpy Mexican tree fern
35. Cybotium scheidei
36. which never grows very tall.’
37. ‘I saw it
38. a grin and a nod
39. from the most senior of them a skinny 15 year old kid with stumpy dreads I exhaled with relief.’
40. ‘Vines with yawning purple flowers clung to the walls
41. and thick
42. stumpy trees guarded the back of the house.’
43. ‘The hard
44. leathery tail is short
45. cylindrical
46. and stumpy and it is marked by a series of distinct rings.’
47. ‘I've just drained the last few drops from the bottle
48. all that remains are the few beads of condensation that cling to the outside of the stumpy brown empty vessel.’
49. ‘It is topped by a stumpy
50. Lego-like lighthouse where a keeper and his family lived until 1987
51. when they were replaced by a light bulb.’
52. ‘These days Satch luxuriates in his own back garden and gets plenty of exercise when the babies chase him
53. trying to grab hold of his stumpy but ever-wagging tail.’
54. ‘Mrs. Bauer's stumpy frame is shaken by shuddering sobs and her little girl
55. hanging onto her skirt
56. looks up with a puckered face
57. ready to cry with her mother.’
58. ‘His stumpy tail held aloft is unmistakable even in the dark.’