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comparative stumpier, superlative stumpiest
Like or resembling a stump; short and cut off. quotations examples
“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!”
2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books
Full of stumps. examples
countable and uncountable, plural stumpies
(slang) An amputee who has lost a leg. quotations
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."
1976 -, Victor Cohn, Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors, page 63
(uncountable, slang, obsolete) Money. quotations
Down with the stumpy; a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.
1881, T. Lewis O. Davies, Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, A Supplementary English Glossary, page 630