stumpyn.

/ˈstʌmpi/

Etymology: < stump n.¹ + -y suffix⁶.

1. A spritsail barge.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > sailing-barge

gabbart1487

wherry1589

piragua1667

schooner barge1819

spritsail1867

stumpy1881

sailing-barge1886

spritty1920

sailor-man1948

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > barge > sailing

gabbart1487

Western barge1506

wherry1589

west country1651

piragua1667

schooner barge1819

spritsail1867

stumpy1881

sailing-barge1886

spritty1920

sailor-man1948

1881 Standard 22 June 3/7 The Committee boat, having steamed up to the stumpies.., gave an opportunity of witnessing a very interesting contest.

1889 A. T. Pask Eyes of Thames 32 A craft that is known on the river as a ‘stumpy’, i.e. a barge without a top-sail.

2. slang. Money. Cf. stump n.¹ 16.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > [noun]

silverc825

feec870

pennieseOE

wortheOE

mintOE

scata1122

spense?c1225

spendinga1290

sumc1300

gooda1325

moneya1325

cattlec1330

muckc1330

reasona1382

pecunyc1400

gilt1497

argentc1500

gelta1529

Mammon1539

ale silver1541

scruff1559

the sinews of war1560

sterling1565

lour1567

will-do-all1583

shell1591

trasha1592

quinyie1596

brass1597

pecuniary1604

dust1607

nomisma1614

countera1616

cross and pilea1625

gingerbreada1625

rhinoa1628

cash1646

grig1657

spanker1663

cole1673

goree1699

mopus1699

quid1699

ribbin1699

bustle1763

necessary1772

stuff1775

needfula1777

iron1785

(the) Spanish1788

pecuniar1793

kelter1807

dibs1812

steven1812

pewter1814

brad1819

pogue1819

rent1823

stumpy1828

posh1830

L. S. D.1835

rivetc1835

tin1836

mint sauce1839

nobbins1846

ochre1846

dingbat1848

dough1848

cheese1850

California1851

mali1851

ducat1853

pay dirt1853

boodle?1856

dinero1856

scad1856

the shiny1856

spondulicks1857

rust1858

soap1860

sugar1862

coin1874

filthy1876

wampum1876

ooftish1877

shekel1883

oil1885

oof1885

mon1888

Jack1890

sploshc1890

bees and honey1892

spending-brass1896

stiff1897

mazuma1900

mazoom1901

cabbage1903

lettuce1903

Oscar Asche1905

jingle1906

doubloons1908

kale1912

scratch1914

green1917

oscar1917

snow1925

poke1926

oodle1930

potatos1931

bread1935

moolah1936

acker1939

moo1941

lolly1943

loot1943

poppy1943

mazoola1944

dosh1953

bickies1966

lovely jubbly1990

scrilla1994

1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life II. 7 He inquired whether I had any other dibbs, any more blunt or stumpy, any more money.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 303 Till they was rig'larly done over, and forked out the stumpy.

1837 T. Hook Jack Brag I. ii. 55 Send up the stumpy by to-night's post.

1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows III. xlii. 111 I am short of ready stumpy.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. ii. 30 Down with the stumpy—a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.

1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 104 Stumpy, money.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

stumpyadj.

/ˈstʌmpi/

Etymology: < stump n.¹ + -y suffix¹.

a. Like a stump; short and thick. Of grass, etc.: full of stumps or short hard stalks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > condition of being short and thick or broad > [adjective]

stoba1500

stubbeda1529

stubbleda1529

strunt1577

stumpy1600

chubby1611

stumpish1618

chubbed1674

squat1684

chubbish1685

chub1688

squabbed1694

cloddy1712

clavellated1713

pluggy1720

squab1723

puddy1747

tubbish1786

stunt1788

bunting1808–25

dumpy1808

clumpy1820

dubby1825

stubby1831

chunky1833

snubbed1835

tubby1835

pudgy1862

squatty1881

squidgy1891

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iv. ii. 633 The haie..is full of stumpie stalkes,..and nothing pleasing [etc.].

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ vii. 106 Once for all, the stumpy Graff will be found much superiour to the slender one, and make a much nobler and larger Shoot.

1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (ed. 5) I. 157 They often burn the Stubble, it being so stumpy that they seldom plow it in.

1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 54 Festoons of luxuriant leaves and tendrils, not fastened to stiff poles and stumpy stakes as in France.

1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney I. 198 A stout short-legged pony, with a thick neck and a stumpy tail.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. iv. 417 Nose smallish, inclining to be stumpy.

1862 ‘The Druid’ Scott & Sebright 138 He was a thick short horse, got us little stumpy mares, we've very few of them.

1890 D. C. Murray John Vale's Guardian iv The stumpy bamboo cane which Mr. Macfarlane carried.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 572 The hairs turn white, hypertrophy, become stumpy and brittle, or fall out.

1916 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 469/2 You may see a boat, her high receding bows surmounted by a stumpy beak.

b. of a human figure.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad

short shoulderedc1405

bunting1584

squaddy1593

chubby1611

truncheon1611

squat1630

squabbish1666

truss1674

squab1675

squad1675

stocky1676

punch1679

trunch1683

squat1688

stub1711

fodgel1724

thick-set1724

puddy1747

chunky1749

dumpy1750

squabby1754

knurly1758

clunch1776

trunchy1778

fubsy1780

punchy1780

humpty-dumpty1785

trunched1787

pudgy1788

fubby1790

runty1807

squattish1809

roly-poly1818

stumpy1822

hoddy-doddy1824

spuddya1825

hodmandod1825

stubby1831

podgy1832

fubsical1834

dumpty1847

fatling1847

stuggy1847

nuggety1856

cloddy1876

blocky1879

chumpy188.

cobby1883

squidgy1891

stockish1913

pyknic1925

humpisha1935

1822 J. Galt Provost xliii. 318 This Mr. Peevie was, in his person, a stumpy man.

1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 78 That short stumpy woman in the cloak is Miss Creepmouse.

1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner II. 324 Turner was a stumpy, ill-dressed man, with a red face.

a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) II. xi. 115 I was always afraid she'd be short and stumpy.

c. of a building.

ΚΠ

1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh II. 128 The stumpy towers of Ripon Minster.

1883 A. Dobson in Eng. Illustr. Mag. Nov. 76/2 The fine old Banqueting House..seems to overlook the stumpy Horse Guards much as a person with a pedigree might be supposed to survey a nouveau riche.

1896 A. J. C. Hare Story of my Life I. ii. 57 Our high field, over which the stumpy spire of the church could be seen.

d. Natural History.

ΚΠ

1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. at Scarabæidæ Their forms are very varied, but generally short and stumpy.

1863 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Brit. Assoc. i. 643 Mytilus? var. glomeratus... Short, stumpy, solid, crowded.

1886 J. J. Quelch in Rep. Sci. Results Voy. H.M.S. Challenger: Zool. XVI. iii. 66 Its thickened, short, stumpy and close branches and branchlets.

1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. V. 20 Stumpy crocodile, a small and short-nosed crocodile (Osteolæmus tetraspis) from West Africa, in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone.

2. Worn down to a stump.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > worn down to a stump or stub

stump1624

stubbed1627

stunted1716

stumpy1794

1794 J. Williams Crying Epist. 15 Let them not force me to repair these slips: To fasten stumpy brooms upon my ships.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story i A stumpy pen, richly crusted with ink at the nib.

1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 254/1 Rub the old colour up with a stumpy brush.

3. Of ground: full of stumps. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of

bushya1382

ramagea1500

boskya1616

brakya1637

brushy1658

brushed1666

scrubbya1687

pine barrenc1721

bush-grown1837

stumpy1838

bush-skirted1858

bushed1868

bush-covered1873

bush-fringed1891

bush-clad1909

primary forest1909

1838 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1883) 150 Climbing a rude, rough, rocky, stumpy, ferny height yesterday.

1879 J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey 122 A little stumpy clearing.

1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 536/2 Soil, whether..gravel, sand, stumpy, stony.

1897 Outing July 328/2 A few acres of stumpy pasture.

Compounds

Parasynthetic (in sense 1a).

ΚΠ

1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind xii. 355 Both stories accounting..for the fact that bears and hyenas are stumpy-tailed.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. iii. 217 This pert throng..Are only stumpy-winged and cackling..geese.

Derivatives

ˈstumpily adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adverb] > and broadly

dumpily1880

stumpily1886

stockily1892

pudgily1894

squidgily1933

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. ix. 331 A stumpily made..good-natured simpleton.

ˈstumpiness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > condition of being short and thick or broad > [noun]

dumpiness1824

squatness1824

stumpinessa1878

tubbiness1881

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 107 Such stumpiness of proportion was not viewed as essential to the style.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	stumpy
释义	stumpyn. /ˈstʌmpi/ Etymology: < stump n.¹ + -y suffix⁶. 1. A spritsail barge. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > sailing-barge gabbart1487 wherry1589 piragua1667 schooner barge1819 spritsail1867 stumpy1881 sailing-barge1886 spritty1920 sailor-man1948 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > barge > sailing gabbart1487 Western barge1506 wherry1589 west country1651 piragua1667 schooner barge1819 spritsail1867 stumpy1881 sailing-barge1886 spritty1920 sailor-man1948 1881 Standard 22 June 3/7 The Committee boat, having steamed up to the stumpies.., gave an opportunity of witnessing a very interesting contest. 1889 A. T. Pask Eyes of Thames 32 A craft that is known on the river as a ‘stumpy’, i.e. a barge without a top-sail. 2. slang. Money. Cf. stump n.¹ 16. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [noun] silverc825 feec870 pennieseOE wortheOE mintOE scata1122 spense?c1225 spendinga1290 sumc1300 gooda1325 moneya1325 cattlec1330 muckc1330 reasona1382 pecunyc1400 gilt1497 argentc1500 gelta1529 Mammon1539 ale silver1541 scruff1559 the sinews of war1560 sterling1565 lour1567 will-do-all1583 shell1591 trasha1592 quinyie1596 brass1597 pecuniary1604 dust1607 nomisma1614 countera1616 cross and pilea1625 gingerbreada1625 rhinoa1628 cash1646 grig1657 spanker1663 cole1673 goree1699 mopus1699 quid1699 ribbin1699 bustle1763 necessary1772 stuff1775 needfula1777 iron1785 (the) Spanish1788 pecuniar1793 kelter1807 dibs1812 steven1812 pewter1814 brad1819 pogue1819 rent1823 stumpy1828 posh1830 L. S. D.1835 rivetc1835 tin1836 mint sauce1839 nobbins1846 ochre1846 dingbat1848 dough1848 cheese1850 California1851 mali1851 ducat1853 pay dirt1853 boodle?1856 dinero1856 scad1856 the shiny1856 spondulicks1857 rust1858 soap1860 sugar1862 coin1874 filthy1876 wampum1876 ooftish1877 shekel1883 oil1885 oof1885 mon1888 Jack1890 sploshc1890 bees and honey1892 spending-brass1896 stiff1897 mazuma1900 mazoom1901 cabbage1903 lettuce1903 Oscar Asche1905 jingle1906 doubloons1908 kale1912 scratch1914 green1917 oscar1917 snow1925 poke1926 oodle1930 potatos1931 bread1935 moolah1936 acker1939 moo1941 lolly1943 loot1943 poppy1943 mazoola1944 dosh1953 bickies1966 lovely jubbly1990 scrilla1994 1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life II. 7 He inquired whether I had any other dibbs, any more blunt or stumpy, any more money. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 303 Till they was rig'larly done over, and forked out the stumpy. 1837 T. Hook Jack Brag I. ii. 55 Send up the stumpy by to-night's post. 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows III. xlii. 111 I am short of ready stumpy. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. ii. 30 Down with the stumpy—a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half. 1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 104 Stumpy, money. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). stumpyadj. /ˈstʌmpi/ Etymology: < stump n.¹ + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Like a stump; short and thick. Of grass, etc.: full of stumps or short hard stalks. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being short and thick or broad > [adjective] stoba1500 stubbeda1529 stubbleda1529 strunt1577 stumpy1600 chubby1611 stumpish1618 chubbed1674 squat1684 chubbish1685 chub1688 squabbed1694 cloddy1712 clavellated1713 pluggy1720 squab1723 puddy1747 tubbish1786 stunt1788 bunting1808–25 dumpy1808 clumpy1820 dubby1825 stubby1831 chunky1833 snubbed1835 tubby1835 pudgy1862 squatty1881 squidgy1891 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iv. ii. 633 The haie..is full of stumpie stalkes,..and nothing pleasing [etc.]. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ vii. 106 Once for all, the stumpy Graff will be found much superiour to the slender one, and make a much nobler and larger Shoot. 1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (ed. 5) I. 157 They often burn the Stubble, it being so stumpy that they seldom plow it in. 1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 54 Festoons of luxuriant leaves and tendrils, not fastened to stiff poles and stumpy stakes as in France. 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney I. 198 A stout short-legged pony, with a thick neck and a stumpy tail. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. iv. 417 Nose smallish, inclining to be stumpy. 1862 ‘The Druid’ Scott & Sebright 138 He was a thick short horse, got us little stumpy mares, we've very few of them. 1890 D. C. Murray John Vale's Guardian iv The stumpy bamboo cane which Mr. Macfarlane carried. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 572 The hairs turn white, hypertrophy, become stumpy and brittle, or fall out. 1916 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 469/2 You may see a boat, her high receding bows surmounted by a stumpy beak. b. of a human figure. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad short shoulderedc1405 bunting1584 squaddy1593 chubby1611 truncheon1611 squat1630 squabbish1666 truss1674 squab1675 squad1675 stocky1676 punch1679 trunch1683 squat1688 stub1711 fodgel1724 thick-set1724 puddy1747 chunky1749 dumpy1750 squabby1754 knurly1758 clunch1776 trunchy1778 fubsy1780 punchy1780 humpty-dumpty1785 trunched1787 pudgy1788 fubby1790 runty1807 squattish1809 roly-poly1818 stumpy1822 hoddy-doddy1824 spuddya1825 hodmandod1825 stubby1831 podgy1832 fubsical1834 dumpty1847 fatling1847 stuggy1847 nuggety1856 cloddy1876 blocky1879 chumpy188. cobby1883 squidgy1891 stockish1913 pyknic1925 humpisha1935 1822 J. Galt Provost xliii. 318 This Mr. Peevie was, in his person, a stumpy man. 1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 78 That short stumpy woman in the cloak is Miss Creepmouse. 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner II. 324 Turner was a stumpy, ill-dressed man, with a red face. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) II. xi. 115 I was always afraid she'd be short and stumpy. c. of a building. ΚΠ 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh II. 128 The stumpy towers of Ripon Minster. 1883 A. Dobson in Eng. Illustr. Mag. Nov. 76/2 The fine old Banqueting House..seems to overlook the stumpy Horse Guards much as a person with a pedigree might be supposed to survey a nouveau riche. 1896 A. J. C. Hare Story of my Life I. ii. 57 Our high field, over which the stumpy spire of the church could be seen. d. Natural History. ΚΠ 1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. at Scarabæidæ Their forms are very varied, but generally short and stumpy. 1863 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Brit. Assoc. i. 643 Mytilus? var. glomeratus... Short, stumpy, solid, crowded. 1886 J. J. Quelch in Rep. Sci. Results Voy. H.M.S. Challenger: Zool. XVI. iii. 66 Its thickened, short, stumpy and close branches and branchlets. 1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. V. 20 Stumpy crocodile, a small and short-nosed crocodile (Osteolæmus tetraspis) from West Africa, in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone. 2. Worn down to a stump. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > worn down to a stump or stub stump1624 stubbed1627 stunted1716 stumpy1794 1794 J. Williams Crying Epist. 15 Let them not force me to repair these slips: To fasten stumpy brooms upon my ships. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story i A stumpy pen, richly crusted with ink at the nib. 1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 254/1 Rub the old colour up with a stumpy brush. 3. Of ground: full of stumps. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of bushya1382 ramagea1500 boskya1616 brakya1637 brushy1658 brushed1666 scrubbya1687 pine barrenc1721 bush-grown1837 stumpy1838 bush-skirted1858 bushed1868 bush-covered1873 bush-fringed1891 bush-clad1909 primary forest1909 1838 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1883) 150 Climbing a rude, rough, rocky, stumpy, ferny height yesterday. 1879 J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey 122 A little stumpy clearing. 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 536/2 Soil, whether..gravel, sand, stumpy, stony. 1897 Outing July 328/2 A few acres of stumpy pasture. Compounds Parasynthetic (in sense 1a). ΚΠ 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind xii. 355 Both stories accounting..for the fact that bears and hyenas are stumpy-tailed. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. iii. 217 This pert throng..Are only stumpy-winged and cackling..geese. Derivatives ˈstumpily adv. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adverb] > and broadly dumpily1880 stumpily1886 stockily1892 pudgily1894 squidgily1933 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. ix. 331 A stumpily made..good-natured simpleton. ˈstumpiness n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being short and thick or broad > [noun] dumpiness1824 squatness1824 stumpinessa1878 tubbiness1881 a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 107 Such stumpiness of proportion was not viewed as essential to the style. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1828adj.1600
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