dumpy

comparative dumpier · superlative dumpiest

1. Short and thick; stout or stocky.

plural dumpies

1. A short, stout person or animal, especially one of a breed of very short-legged chickens.

   Yet I don't like dumpies either, and Brown says she is little and stout—the better fitted for a wiry, starved-looking chap like you.

   1857, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, Smith, Elder & Co., page 102

2. South AfricaA small bottle of beer.

   Lager-style beer comes in cans or dumpies (small bottles) for around US$1.10.

   2007, Alan Murphy, Southern Africa, page 414

   1 more example

   “Once you start drinking you have many friends drinking with you,” the University of Johannesburg student explained. “I drink whiskey and I drink beer. I drink heavily on weekends but during the week I have about three or four dumpies. I don’t pass out. I just get drunk,” he said.

   2011 July 29, Nalisha Kalideen, “Binge drinking rife at universities”, in Mail & Guardian

3. abbreviationellipsisgeographyEllipsis of dumpy level.

   Most manufacturers have ceased making dumpies, and a number have even stopped making tilting levels, […]

   2012, Raymond Paul, Walter Whyte, Basic Surveying, page 82

comparative dumpier · superlative dumpiest

1. Of or relating to a garbage dump; rubbishy.

   "I knew it!" Barry screeched. "A dump bike for the dummy. Hey, dumpy boy. Dumper! Ha, haaaaaaaaagh!"

   1983, John Bibee, The Magic Bicycle, page 17

   2 more examples

   At first, I had no idea you had money, and you didn't seem like a snoot. The place where you were renting was a dumpy place. When you turned out to have money, I was surprised.

   1990 February 4, Vanessa Nemeth, Stephanie Poggi, “Bumps And All”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 12

   On the other side of the walls was a dumpy, trash-ridden street of the IZ, not far from an old government building of Saddam Hussein.

   2017, Jade Wu, Flash Points, page 145

plural dumpies

1. slangSynonym of dump truck (“prominent buttocks”).

   1 more example

   When her animation students at Kansas City Art Institute kept asking why the moms in Pixar have dump-truck asses, Bona Bones […] knew she had to share the answer beyond just the classroom. That’s how she found herself making a TikTok to directly answer the question: “Why do all Pixar moms have such huge dumpies?”

   2022 June 17, Jodie Walker, “What’s Really Behind the Pixar Dump-Truck Meme? A Ringer Investigation.”, in The Ringer

   Synonyms: dump truck