Meanings
stumpy1
comparative stumpier · superlative stumpiest
- Like or resembling a stump; short and cut off.
“That’s better. Gilbert Goodie! I should have known it was you. The one-legged layabout. The uni-ped idler. The stumpy skiver. Stealing coins from a wishing well now, are we? You couldn’t make it up!”
2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN - Full of stumps.
a stumpy forest
plural stumpies
- countableslanguncountableAn amputee who has lost a leg.
Many of the cricketers were amputees, yet they were not without resources. The "wingies" did the running for the "stumpies," and the "stumpies" did the batting for the "wingies."
1976 -, Victor Cohn, Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors, →ISBN, page 63Synonyms: limby
- obsoleteslanguncountableMoney.
Down with the stumpy; a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.
1881, T. Lewis O. Davies, Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, A Supplementary English Glossary, page 630
Stumpy2
plural Stumpies
- abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn amputee who has lost a leg.
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adjectiveshort and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
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stumpy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stumpy
“stumpy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stumpy. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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