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English Dictionary: Dumpy by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dumpy
adj
  1. resembling a garbage dump
  2. 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"
    Synonym(s): chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy
  3. short and plump
    Synonym(s): dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby, roly-poly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dumpy \Dump"y\, 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.
  
      2. Sullen or discontented. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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