A knotted, thick-set fellow. Obsolete.

A short and dumpy person: cf. B.

figurative or in figurative context.

figurative. Cf. trunk, n. 1b. Obsolete.

Applied to a person: A blockhead (cf. stock, n.1 1c, stub, n. 2); a man of short stumpy figure (cf. stub, n. 7d). †Sometimes as a term of…

A small chubby person. Chiefly used as a term of endearment. Obsolete.

A dumpy animal or person, short and of rounded outlines.

A short fat person. Cf. Punchinello, n. 2. Now rare (regional in later use).

A person, animal, or thing likened to Punchinello, esp. on account of being short and stout, or clownish. Cf. punch, n.4 1.

A short or stumpy person or thing.

northern dialect. = knurl, n. 2 (See quots.)

A thick-set, stumpy person; a deformed dwarf. dialect.

figurative. A short person of thickset build; a small or undersized person. Also as a term of abuse.

A short fat person.

A squat fat person. (Cf. squad, adj., squaddy, adj.)

A short, dumpy, hump-shouldered person. In the well-known nursery rhyme or riddle (quoted below) commonly explained as signifying an egg (in…

transferred. A squat, chunky person.

= knurl, n. 2.

colloquial (originally Scottish). Anything short and thick, stumpy, or chubby; spec. a short and thickset or fat person or animal. Also: a…

A person with a stumpy figure. Also, a small child.

Scottish, Irish English and Australian. A small, compact, stocky person; (also) an undersized animal, a runt.

Anything short or thick; spec. a short fat person or animal; a plump child. Now also: excess weight, fat. Cf. pudge, n.2

A term familiarly applied to various objects of ‘dumpy’ shape. Applied to a short and stout person.

A dumpy person or animal; spec. one of a breed of very short-legged fowls; (in plural) a nickname for the Nineteenth Hussars.

A person with a pyknic physique.

Anthropometry. In the classification of W. H. Sheldon: a person whose build is powerful, compact, and muscular, with noticeable development of…