dumpy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective resembling a garbage dump
  2. adjective satellite short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
    squat; squatty; low-set; chunky; stumpy.
    • some people seem born to be square and chunky
    • a dumpy little dumpling of a woman
    • dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears
    • a little church with a squat tower
    • a squatty red smokestack
    • a stumpy ungainly figure
  3. adjective satellite short and plump
    podgy; roly-poly; pudgy; tubby.

WordNet

Dump"y adjective
Etymology
(a) From Dump a short ill-shapen piece. (b) From Dump sadness.
Wordforms
comparative Dumpier ; superlative Dumpiest
Definitions
  1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.
  2. Sullen or discontented. Prov. Eng. Halliwell.

Webster 1913