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English
Etymology
From stump + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
stumpy (comparative stumpier, superlative stumpiest)
- Like or resembling a stump; short and cut off.
2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:“That’s better. Gilbert Goodie! I should have known it was you. The one-legged layabout. The uni-ped idler. The stumpy skiver. Stealing coins from a wishing well now, are we? You couldn’t make it up!”
- Full of stumps.
a stumpy forest
Derived terms
Noun
stumpy (countable and uncountable, plural stumpies)
- (slang) An amputee who has lost a leg.
- Synonym: limby
1976 -, Victor Cohn, Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors, →ISBN, page 63:Many of the cricketers were amputees, yet they were not without resources. The "wingies" did the running for the "stumpies," and the "stumpies" did the batting for the "wingies."
- (uncountable, slang, obsolete) Money.
1881, T. Lewis O. Davies, Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, A Supplementary English Glossary, page 630:Down with the stumpy; a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.
See also
References
- (money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary