dumptyn.adj.
/ˈdʌmpti/ A. n.
A person or thing that is short and dumpy.
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1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Dumpty, a very short person. West.
1923 Sunday at Home Apr. 385/1 The girl..was sitting on an enormous dumpty close to her father's big chair.
B. adj.
= dumpy adj.2
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1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago III. vii. 189 Mary comes in: a little dumpty body with a yellow face, and a red nose.
1879 F. W. Robinson Coward Conscience i. iii The dumpty wooden lighthouse.
1891 Dawn of Day 158 The ‘dumpty dolly’..is a piece of muslin twisted up with a lump of sugar inside it, which some mothers give their children to suck.
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n.adj.1847