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stumpy

[stuhm-pee] / ˈstʌm pi /
ADJECTIVE
short and thick
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She tossed them across the desk with her furry, stumpy arms, basically throwing them over Zeke’s and Daniel’s heads.

From Literature

The palm-sized creatures have silky golden locks, no eyes, a stumpy tail and flipper-like hands.

From BBC

An herbivore that was loosely related to horses, the statue looked something like a horse with stumpy snout.

From New York Times

He reached into Hideg’s stash of percussion instruments and kept rhythm on cowbell and a set of stumpy sticks called claves.

From Los Angeles Times

It entered a cluster of gray sage that must have seemed like a tall forest to the stumpy little thing.

From Literature