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stunty, a.|ˈstʌntɪ|
[f. stunt a. + -y.]
1. Stunted in growth, short in stature.
1828H. Angelo Remin. I. 287 Two stock-broker's clerks, the one six feet two in height; the other, a stunty Jew, performed the parts of Pierre and Jaffier. 1868Cleveland Gloss., Stunty, 1. Short in growth or stature; of Ling, or any other shrubby plant: of a person also, who is short in stature.
2. Sulky, obstinate; curt, blunt. dial.
a1825[see stunt a. 3]. 1861A. Strickland Old Friends Ser. ii. 69 Their hoss..had kicked her own fetlock, and then she turned both lame and stunty (sulky stubborn).
3. Having the character of a stunt, extravagant, ‘gimmicky’.
1981Daily Tel. 27 Jan. 13/4 Cardin's minis do not look stunty or contrived.
Hence ˈstuntiness, the condition of being stunted.
Latham quotes from ‘Cheyne Philosophical Conjectures’ a passage identical with quot. 1740 s.v. stuntedness.
a1878Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) II. 179 While walls and pillars might avail themselves to the full of this upward striving, it was hard that the arch should be condemned to unalterable stuntiness. |