DUMPY meaning: Short, stout, and somewhat unattractive

We found 29 dictionaries that define the word dumpy:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

dumpy: Merriam-Webster
dumpy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
dumpy, dumpy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
dumpy: Collins English Dictionary
dumpy: Vocabulary.com
Dumpy, dumpy: Wordnik
dumpy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
dumpy: Wiktionary
dumpy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
dumpy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
dumpy: Infoplease Dictionary
Dumpy, dumpy: Dictionary.com
dumpy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Dumpy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Dumpy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
dumpy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
dumpy: Rhymezone
Dumpy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
dumpy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
DUMPY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
dumpy: FreeDictionary.org
dumpy: Mnemonic Dictionary
dumpy: TheFreeDictionary.com
dumpy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Dumpy: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

dumpy, dumpy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Dumpy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Short and thick; stout or stocky.
▸ noun:  A short, stout person or animal, especially one of a breed of very short-legged chickens.
▸ noun:  (South Africa) A small bottle of beer.
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to a garbage dump; rubbishy.
▸ noun:  (slang) Synonym of dump truck (“prominent buttocks”).
▸ noun:  (surveying) Ellipsis of dumpy level. [(surveying) A level having a short telescope, usually an inverting one, rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane.]

Similar:

tubby, fat, podgy, pudgy, chunky, squat, stumpy, squatty, short, low-set, more...

Opposite:

slender, svelte, trim, fit, lean

Types:

scruffy, slovenly, unkempt, disheveled, sloppy, grubby, mussy, fil, more...

Phrases:

dumpy level, dumpy levels, more...

Adjectives:

klumpy, humpy, little, clumpy, more