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Definition of Dumpy
1. Adjective. Resembling a garbage dump.
2. Adjective. Short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature. "A stumpy ungainly figure"
Similar to: Little, Short
Derivative terms: Dumpiness, Squatness, Squattiness
3. Adjective. Short and plump.
Similar to: Fat
Derivative terms: Dumpiness, Pudge, Pudginess, Rolypoliness, Tubbiness
Definition of Dumpy
1. a. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.
Definition of Dumpy
1. Adjective. short and thick; stout or stocky ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dumpy
1. short and thick [adj DUMPIER, DUMPIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dumpy
Literary usage of Dumpy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"Comparison of Wye and dumpy Levels. — The wye level has long been a favorite in
... The dumpy level has very few movable parts, and consequently it does not ..."
2. A Manual of Field and Office Methods for the Use of Students in Surveying by William David Pence, Milo Smith Ketchum (1904)
"The principal elementary lines of the dumpy level are identical with those of
the wye level: (1) the line of collimation; (2) the bubble line; ..."
3. Treatise on Mine-surveying by Bennett Hooper Brough (1906)
"The dumpy Level — The term spirit-level is also applied to the levelling ...
The instrument most generally used in Great Britain is the dumpy level, ..."
4. Plane Surveying: A Text and Reference Book for the Use of Students in by Paul Cook Nugent (1902)
"The dumpy Level.—In the dumpy level, Fig. 119, the telescope is attached by the
third method and the bubble tube is fastened to the level.bar instead of to ..."
5. Outline of the Method of Conducting a Trigonometrical Survey, for the by Edward Charles Frome (1873)
"... Troughton's improved level, and the dumpy level introduced by Mr. Gravatt,
are described at length in Mr. Simms' "Treatise on Mathematical Instruments. ..."
6. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1837)
"All the other figures we have seen of it err in the too great bulkiness of the
body ; for, although a thick bird, it is not so dumpy as ornithological ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"For what but a dowdy can a dumpy woman be, condemned to drees in a mode ...
We differ from Lord Byron, who said, " Now, on my soul, I bate a dumpy woman. ..."
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