stubby
Origin of stubby
1Other words from stubby
- stub·bi·ly, adverb
- stub·bi·ness, noun
Words Nearby stubby
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How to use stubby in a sentence
At Monterey Car Week in August, the team showed off the skysphere, which morphs from stubby sports car to autonomous cruiser, extending its wheelbase as the driver's controls fold out of sight.
Audi subverts the luxury sedan with new grandsphere concept | Jonathan M. Gitlin | September 2, 2021 | Ars TechnicaImages showed short, stubby cilia on the surface of the infected cells rather than the long projections found on healthy cells.
The coronavirus cuts cells’ hairlike cilia, which may help it invade the lungs | Erin Garcia de Jesús | July 22, 2021 | Science NewsThe stubby sausages, meanwhile, are straight off an English breakfast table.
Swahili Village brings a taste of African fine dining to D.C. | Tom Sietsema | April 2, 2021 | Washington PostComputers kept the SN8 level by flapping stubby fins attached to its base and nosecone.
SpaceX’s Starship flies, belly flops, and bursts into flames | Charlie Wood | December 10, 2020 | Popular-ScienceMore specifically, the dash-mount arm is so stubby that it can’t jiggle around.
But the key to positive identification was that stubby little finger on his left hand.
The Night the SEALS Captured the Butcher of Fallujah | Patrick Robinson | November 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut how could they bronze that stubby little body, the melon head, the double chin?
Richard Ben Cramer Dies: Iconic Writer Had an Unerring Ear for Dialogue | John Avlon | January 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOver time, as cells reproduce, our telomeres become shorter and shorter, until they become so stubby that the process stops.
He could take care of him when he got inside, got to that stubby .38 he had slipped into the glove compartment just in case.
The suns and winds of many seas had burned and scored his face, and a stubby mustache gave him a belligerent aspect.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonThen there was a sling-shot, ferociously stubby, and rather confusingly boyish.
Molly Make-Believe | Eleanor Hallowell AbbottMr. Van Britt blew his cheeks out until the stubby, cropped mustache bristled like porcupine quills.
The Wreckers | Francis LyndeTenors are generally short, stubby men with brief necks, while baritones are for the most part tall, spare and long-necked.
British Dictionary definitions for stubby
/ (ˈstʌbɪ) /
short and broad; stumpy or thickset
bristling and stiff
Also called: stubbie Australian slang a small bottle of beer
Derived forms of stubby
- stubbily, adverb
- stubbiness, noun
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