dumpy

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Short and thick. Provincial in various parts of England, where, as with us, it is generally applied to a person who is both short and fat.


Whenever he was wih me, his short, dumpy, gouty, crooked fingers, were continually teazing my spinnet, to his own harmonious croaking.--Student, 2, 225.

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