Meaning & use
Stumpy
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Short and thick, resembling a stump; disproportionately short.
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The dog had stumpy little legs that made it waddle when it ran.
He gripped the stumpy pencil, worn down to almost nothing.
A note on using this word
Derived from 'stump,' the leftover base of a cut tree, giving the word its sense of shortness and bluntness.
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