stumpy

«stumpy» in Mova's school dictionary: short and thick, like a tree stump — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (stumpy, stumpier, stumpiest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Stumpy means short and thick, like a tree stump. tree →

2) A stumpy tail or leg is short and thick. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and everyday talk it describes animals, plants, people's legs or pencils in a slightly funny, friendly way. Phrases: stumpy tail, stumpy legs, a stumpy pencil.

examples

• The puppy had stumpy little legs. tree →
• Corgis are dogs with stumpy legs and long bodies. tree →
• I wrote with a stumpy pencil because I lost my good one. tree →
• The lizard has a fat, stumpy tail. tree →
• A stumpy candle burned on the table. tree →
• The old tree was cut down to a stumpy trunk. tree →
• The stumpy-tailed cat ran across the garden. tree →

note

Comparative stumpier, stumpiest. Calling a person stumpy can be rude. Related: stump (what is left of a tree after it is cut).

In the corpora

• Mandrills live in the rainforests of Central Africa and have short stumpy tails; they are the biggest monkeys in the world.
• A silkworm has six true, pointed legs at the front, like every insect, and ten soft stumpy legs further back.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «stumpy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.