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adjectivedumpier, dumpiest ˈdʌmpiˈdəmpi (of a person) short and stout. the dress made her look dumpy Example sentencesExamples - Take them off, and it's like removing your espadrille wedges when you're wearing a smock dress (one minute, you're striking stork woman; the next, dumpy peasant girl).
- Unfortunately, too many hits to the head caused a good majority of the players that stayed straight to marry dumpy broads.
- A short dumpy woman appeared from behind the counter.
- Carefully backing away from the newcomer, he waved a hairy-backed hand at his sour, dumpy friend.
- What really cracks me up about this pic is the dumpy assistant or fan or whoever standing behind her in boat shoes/ fishnets/ denimskirt/ tee and suit jacket.
- A dumpy woman wearing maid's clothing picked up a load of dirty sheets and carry it to one of the washing machines.
- Even before he recognized the dumpy bag lady, Sam was running.
- A few seconds later a short, dumpy woman cautiously opened the door.
- He became well known for his woodcuts, which caused a frisson by taking liberties with the dignities of his subjects, most notably Queen Victoria herself, whom he depicted as a dumpy widow with a stick, walking a Scotch terrier.
- She wasn't quite lean, but she wasn't very dumpy either.
- In one hilarious scene, this frazzled, menopausal, dumpy housewife eyes up a parking space in the supermarket car park.
- Albania's debut entry is a typical europop affair, fronted by a dumpy girl in a cheap dress.
- References such as this, particularly as a lead, reinforce the prejudice that talented women must also be attractive. What if the subject had been a dumpy figure wearing dresses down to her ankle?
- Very soon, a small, dumpy figure in a shaggy brown overcoat appeared, lugging a large sack.
- And my brother Dave and I - he's the shorter dumpy one - you know the one I mean.
- You see attractive women dating schlumps all the time, but when's the last time you saw a decent looking guy with a dumpy woman?
- This theme was followed through in the aftermath of that marriage of convenience, as those dumpy princesses found themselves, well, dumped.
- Far from being short, thick and dumpy they walk tall as champions of freedom and responsibility.
- I fancied that she imagined her wedding to the squinty-eyed, dumpy man sitting beside her.
- Clearly Aunt Charlotte was and is more than just a dumpy aunt; beneath all that hair and sensible clothing was all along a real a killer, who needed only to drop a few pounds and have bleach and wax job and a new wardrobe.
Synonyms short, squat, stubby plump, stout, chubby, chunky, portly, paunchy, corpulent, fat, bulky, broad, broad in the beam, well covered, well padded, well rounded informal tubby, roly-poly, pudgy, porky British informal podgy, fubsy North American informal zaftig archaic pursy
Derivatives adverb Chubby - okay, fat - fortyish, dumpily attired, pretty much all this guy is missing is one of those hats with a propeller on top of it and a lunchbox packed by mom. Example sentencesExamples - I admit to being dumpily short, but why should I accept it?
- I've seen more than a few people in my time (specifically women) who seem to equate dressing modestly with dressing, for lack of a better word, dumpily.
- Whether or not the trend of dressing up baby started in Hollywood, there's no denying the highly visible bambinos of celebrities pictured in magazines or on TV are never dumpily dressed.
- A middle-aged plump woman plodded dumpily through from the adjoining room and peered through her string-held glasses, curiously but as positively as she could muster.
noun ˈdʌmpɪnəsˈdəmpinəs The defects include a loss of mechanosensation, for which the gene was named; aberrant chemosensation; a slight dumpiness in the body; and a partially penetrant cold-sensitive embryonic lethality. Example sentencesExamples - She entered the courtroom, her black robes swinging loosely from her shoulders, not concealing her dumpiness, her white hair cut in a simple bob.
- The present strategy is to use this Kantian account in order to ground a wider category of the aesthetic, which includes judgments of taste along with judgments of daintiness, dumpiness, delicacy, elegance, and the rest.
- Perhaps most impressively, his dumpiness doesn't look out of place next to this actress, who plays his quietly enabling fiancée.
- I imagine her to be short and squat, but pretty feminine in a sickly flowery way despite her dumpiness.
Origin Mid 18th century: from dumpling + -y1. Rhymes bumpy, clumpy, frumpy, grumpy, humpy, jumpy, lumpy, plumpy, rumpy-pumpy, scrumpy, stumpy adjectivedumpier, dumpiest ˈdʌmpiˈdəmpi informal (of a place) dirty and run-down. a dumpy one-room apartment
Origin Early 20th century: from dump (sense 2 of the noun) + -y. adjectiveˈdəmpēˈdəmpi (of a person) short and stout. the dress made her look dumpy Example sentencesExamples - Even before he recognized the dumpy bag lady, Sam was running.
- Unfortunately, too many hits to the head caused a good majority of the players that stayed straight to marry dumpy broads.
- Very soon, a small, dumpy figure in a shaggy brown overcoat appeared, lugging a large sack.
- And my brother Dave and I - he's the shorter dumpy one - you know the one I mean.
- Far from being short, thick and dumpy they walk tall as champions of freedom and responsibility.
- Clearly Aunt Charlotte was and is more than just a dumpy aunt; beneath all that hair and sensible clothing was all along a real a killer, who needed only to drop a few pounds and have bleach and wax job and a new wardrobe.
- A few seconds later a short, dumpy woman cautiously opened the door.
- A short dumpy woman appeared from behind the counter.
- He became well known for his woodcuts, which caused a frisson by taking liberties with the dignities of his subjects, most notably Queen Victoria herself, whom he depicted as a dumpy widow with a stick, walking a Scotch terrier.
- Albania's debut entry is a typical europop affair, fronted by a dumpy girl in a cheap dress.
- She wasn't quite lean, but she wasn't very dumpy either.
- I fancied that she imagined her wedding to the squinty-eyed, dumpy man sitting beside her.
- References such as this, particularly as a lead, reinforce the prejudice that talented women must also be attractive. What if the subject had been a dumpy figure wearing dresses down to her ankle?
- This theme was followed through in the aftermath of that marriage of convenience, as those dumpy princesses found themselves, well, dumped.
- In one hilarious scene, this frazzled, menopausal, dumpy housewife eyes up a parking space in the supermarket car park.
- A dumpy woman wearing maid's clothing picked up a load of dirty sheets and carry it to one of the washing machines.
- Carefully backing away from the newcomer, he waved a hairy-backed hand at his sour, dumpy friend.
- Take them off, and it's like removing your espadrille wedges when you're wearing a smock dress (one minute, you're striking stork woman; the next, dumpy peasant girl).
- What really cracks me up about this pic is the dumpy assistant or fan or whoever standing behind her in boat shoes/ fishnets/ denimskirt/ tee and suit jacket.
- You see attractive women dating schlumps all the time, but when's the last time you saw a decent looking guy with a dumpy woman?
Origin Mid 18th century: from dumpling + -y. adjectiveˈdəmpēˈdəmpi informal (of a place) dirty and run-down. a dumpy little diner with a "closed" sign hanging in the window
Origin Early 20th century: from dump (sense 2 of the noun) + -y. |