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dump·y1    Audio Help   [duhm-pee] Pronunciation Key
–adjective, dump·i·er, dump·i·est.
dumpish; dejected; sulky.

[Origin: 1610–20; dump(s) + -y1]
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dump·y2    Audio Help   [duhm-pee] Pronunciation Key
–adjective, dump·i·er, dump·i·est.
short and stout; squat: a dumpy figure.

[Origin: 1740–50; perh. akin to dumpling]

dump·i·ly, adverb
dump·i·ness, noun
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dump·y 1    Audio Help   (dŭm'pē)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   dump·i·er, dump·i·est
Short and stout; squat.


[Probably from dump, lump.]

dump'i·ly adv., dump'i·ness n.
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dum·py 2    Audio Help   (dŭm'pē)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   dump·i·er, dump·i·est
Resembling a dump, as in shabbiness; disreputable: "The place had a dark and dumpy look" (Washington Post).

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dumpy

adjective
1. resembling a garbage dump 
2. short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "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" [syn: chunky
3. short and plump 

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dumpy [ˈdampi] adjective
short and thick or fat
Example: a dumpy little woman
Arabic: قَصير وَبَدين
Chinese (Simplified): 矮胖的
Chinese (Traditional): 矮胖的
Czech: zavalitý
Danish: lille og tyk; tæt
Dutch: kort en dik
Estonian: matsakas
Finnish: pönäkkä
French: boulot
German: plump
Greek: στρουμπουλός
Hungarian: tömzsi
Icelandic: stuttur og digur, lítill og feitur
Indonesian: pendek gemuk
Italian: tozzo, grassottello
Japanese: ずんぐりした
Korean: 땅딸막한
Latvian: drukns
Lithuanian: kresnas, apvalus
Norwegian: liten og tykk, klumpet
Polish: krępy, przysadzisty
Portuguese (Brazil): atarracado
Portuguese (Portugal): atarracado
Romanian: bondoc
Russian: приземистый
Slovak: zavalitý
Slovenian: debelušen
Spanish: rechoncho
Swedish: rultig, undersätsig, satt
Turkish: kısa ve şişman
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Dumpy

Dump"y\, a. [Compar. Dumpier; superl. Dumpiest.] [ 1. From Dump a short ill-shapen piece.

2. From Dump sadness.]

1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.

2. Sullen or discontented. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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