dumpy

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++dump·y /ˈdʌmpi/ adjective  FATsomeone who is dumpy is fat, short, and unattractive 矮胖的 a dumpy little man 矮胖的小个子男人► see thesaurus at short

Examples from the Corpus

dumpy• I think this skirt makes me look dumpy.• George had a wife, Martha, who was dumpy and plain.• The little dumpy girl was one of two serving.• In his youth, William had been a dumpy little boy who ate too many sweets.• Now it was just a dumpy little building.• At Champney Crucis Kate directed the driver up a lane beside the dumpy little church.• Kitty, her heroine, is dumpy, spotty, pallid and downtrodden.• She was a small, dumpy woman, nothing like her only child in either looks or personality.• Clara was a plain, dumpy woman, several years older than her husband.Origin dumpy (1700-1800) dump “small shapeless piece” ((18-19 centuries))

dump·y adjectiveChineseSyllable  

fat, short, someone is unattractive and is Corpus who dumpy

dumpy
dump‧y /ˈdʌmpi/ adjectivesomeone who is dumpy is fat, short, and unattractive:
    a dumpy little man
     

THESAURUS

■ person
   ▪ short someone who is short is not as tall as most people: He was a short fat man.
   ▪ not very tall quite short. This phrase sounds more gentle than saying that someone is short: She wasn’t very tall – maybe about 1.60 m.
   ▪ small short and with a small body: My mother was a small woman. | The girl was quite small for her age (=smaller than other girls of the same age).
   ▪ petite used about a woman who is attractively short and thin: She was a petite woman with blonde hair.
   ▪ stocky used about a boy or man who is short, heavy, and strong: Harry was stocky and middle-aged.
   ▪ dumpy short and fat: a dumpy girl with red hair
   ▪ diminutive formal literary very short or small – used especially in descriptions in novels: a diminutive figure dressed in black
   ▪ stubby stubby fingers or toes are short and thick: the baby’s stubby little fingers

dumpyBrE /ˈdʌmpi/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdʌmpi/ 🔊 adjective(especially of a person 尤指人) short and fat 矮胖的