(adj) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature, Syn.dumpy, squatty, low-set, stumpy, squat, Example: some people seem born to be square and chunky; a dumpy little dumpling of a woman; dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears; a little church with a squat tower; a squatty red smokestack; a stumpy ungainly figure
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
a. [ Compar. Dumpier superl. Dumpiest. ] [ 1. From Dump a short ill-shapen piece. 2. From Dump sadness. ] 1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Sullen or discontented. See 2nd dump{ 1 }. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]
. (Surv.) A level having a short telescope (hence its name) rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane. The telescope is usually an inverting one. It is sometimes called the Troughton level, from the name of the inventor, and a variety improved by one Gavatt is known as the Gavatt level. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
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