Dictionary entry
Stumpiest
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
(Adj[sup]) stumpy
Definition
stumpy /'stʌmpi/ adj တုတ္တိုတို။ ပုအိုင့္အိုင့္။ stumpy legs ❍ a stumpy candle/tail.
Examples
- ‘The tall officer told the short stumpy man to take her son
- Jared
- somewhere else as he took care of her
- himself.’
- ‘It certainly looks a lot smaller than the lofty Range Rover
- but parked next to one its appearance is more stumpy than stunted.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Seabiscuit was a stumpy nag that looked set for the knackery until it was teamed with one-eyed jockey-cum-boxer Red Pollard.’
- ‘His stumpy fingernails were painted with a shiny clear nail polish with sliver glitter in it…’
- ‘But
- to my surprise
- there was my dog
- wagging her stumpy little tail and walking over to greet me.’
- ‘I'd pay to see that
- though my legs were always too stumpy to make it up the Tower stairs.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Two figures were silhouetted in the entrance
- one short and stumpy
- the other tall and lithe.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Mascara is the great Houdini of the make-up world
- transforming lashes from sparse and stumpy to luxurious and lovely.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘His stumpy tail held aloft is unmistakable even in the dark.’