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dumpy adjective [ ˈdʌmpi ]

• (of a person) short and stout.
• "the dress made her look dumpy"
Similar: short, squat, stubby, plump, stout, chubby, chunky, portly, paunchy, corpulent, fat, bulky, broad, broad in the beam, well covered, well padded, well rounded, tubby, roly-poly, pudgy, porky, podgy, fubsy, zaftig, pursy,
Opposite: tall, slender,
Origin: mid 18th century: from dumpling + -y1.

dumpy adjective

• (of a place) dirty and run-down.
• "a dumpy one-room apartment"
Origin: early 20th century: from dump (sense 2 of the noun) + -y1.


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