snubby

plural snubbies

1. A revolver with a barrel length of 3 inches (76.2 mm) or less.

   Accessories for this version of the SP101 are not as diverse as those available for the five-shot snubby, but excellent add-ons are available.

   2015 June 17, B. Gil Horman, “The Return of the Ruger SP101.327 Fed. Mag.”, in American Rifleman

   Synonyms: snubnosed revolver

comparative snubbier · comparative more snubby · superlative snubbiest · superlative most snubby

1. Short, stumpy.

   Both have mottled legs, Both have snubby noses, Both have—Here the host Kindly interposes:

   1842, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Peg of Limavady”, in The Irish Sketchbook, lines 69–72

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   Well, for more than five years that was me—an alert young chap with a round, pink, snubby kind of face and butter-coloured hair […]

   1939, George Orwell, chapter 7, in Coming Up for Air

   Armed with snubby flintlock and limber blade, Weaver does his crime busting in London during the second decade of the 18th century.

   2000 February 28, R. Z. Sheppard, “Follow the Paper”, in Time

   There was not much of it: the wheelbase was only ninety inches and the track precisely half of that, with a little cast-iron side-valve engine of 918cm² cowering in the depths beneath the snubby bonnet.

   2006, L. J. K. Setright, Long Lane with Turnings: Last Words of a Motoring Legend, London: Granta Books, page 36

   Synonyms: snub