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# stumpy

«stumpy» in Mova's school dictionary: **short and thick, like a tree stump** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (stumpy, stumpier, stumpiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Stumpy means short and thick, like a tree stump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stumpy/#m1)

2) A stumpy tail or leg is short and thick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stumpy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and everyday talk it describes animals, plants, people's legs or pencils in a slightly funny, friendly way. Phrases: stumpy tail, stumpy legs, a stumpy pencil.

### examples

- The puppy had stumpy little legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stumpy/#x1)
- Corgis are dogs with stumpy legs and long bodies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stumpy/#x2)
- I wrote with a stumpy pencil because I lost my good one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stumpy/#x3)
- The lizard has a fat, stumpy tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stumpy/#x4)
- A stumpy candle burned on the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stumpy/#x5)
- The old tree was cut down to a stumpy trunk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stumpy/#x6)
- The stumpy-tailed cat ran across the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stumpy/#x7)

### note

Comparative stumpier, stumpiest. Calling a person stumpy can be rude. Related: stump (what is left of a tree after it is cut).

### In the corpora

- [Mandrills live in the rainforests of Central Africa and have short stumpy tails; they are the biggest monkeys in the world.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/10/)
- [A silkworm has six true, pointed legs at the front, like every insect, and ten soft stumpy legs further back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stumpy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stumpy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.