stunty

comparative more stunty · superlative most stunty

1. Stunted, tending to stunt or be stunted.

   Did I tell you there was a tree grew up in the centre of the alley—a stunty, short-boughed tree, ...

   2019, George Manville Fenn, Begumbagh: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny, Good Press

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   […] yet not all equally prosperous; for a stunty, thorny nature preferring those that the cherry is always the most thriving upon are the freest clean growers.

   1797, Thomas Mawe, John Abercrombie, The Universal Gardener and Botanist: … Second Edition

   I never put my axe into a stunty tree, or one that hasn't a good, fresh-looking bark; for trees have disorders just like creaters; and where's the policy of taking a tree that's sickly, any more than you'd choose a foundered horse to ride post, or ...

   1852 (or 1825?), The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna … by J. F. Cooper, page 198

2. UKdialectalObstinate; sullen.

   Synonyms: stuntish