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单词 stumpy
释义 stumpy
I. \ˈstəmpē, -pi\ adjective
(-er/-est)
Etymology: stump (I) + -y
1. : full of short hard stalks or stubble
 < walking through the stumpy grass >
2.
 a. : short and thick like a stump
  < his stumpy old umbrella — G.K.Chesterton >
  < bunches of stumpy chimneys — Nigel Dennis >
  < a squat red smokestack between two stumpy masts — George Santayana >
  < a stumpy building >
 b. : having a short thick build : stubby
  < is a block of a woman, thick and stumpy and wide — Claudia Cassidy >
  < stumpy ungainly figure — R.H.Sampson >
3. : full or abounding in stumps
 < a hand-to-mouth existence on wheat and corn grown in stumpy clearings — Appalachia >
II. noun
(-es)
1. : one that is stumpy or has a stump
2. : a pole-masted Thames barge
3. Britain : money, cash
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