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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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" [syn: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat,
       squatty, stumpy]
    3: short and plump [syn: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby,
       roly-poly]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Sullen or discontented. See 2nd dump[1]. [Prov. Eng.]
      --Halliwell.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for dumpy:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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