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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
stumpy is an adjective meaning "short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature". It carries one recorded sense.
short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
“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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stumpy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.