Meaning

Short and thick; stout or stocky..

Definitions by Sense

1. Short and thick; stout or stocky.
2. A short, stout person or animal, especially one of a breed of very short-legged chickens.
3. (South Africa) A small bottle of beer.
4. (surveying) Ellipsis of dumpy level.
5. Of or relating to a garbage dump; rubbishy.
6. (slang) Synonym of dump truck (“prominent buttocks”).

Example Sentences

Yet I don't like dumpies either, and Brown says she is little and stout—the better fitted for a wiry, starved-looking chap like you.

Lager-style beer comes in cans or dumpies (small bottles) for around US$1.10.

“Once you start drinking you have many friends drinking with you,” the University of Johannesburg student explained. “I drink whiskey and I drink beer. I drink heavily on weekends but during the week I have about three or four dumpies. I don’t pass out. I just get drunk,” he said.

Most manufacturers have ceased making dumpies, and a number have even stopped making tilting levels, […]

"I knew it!" Barry screeched. "A dump bike for the dummy. Hey, dumpy boy. Dumper! Ha, haaaaaaaaagh!"

At first, I had no idea you had money, and you didn't seem like a snoot. The place where you were renting was a dumpy place. When you turned out to have money, I was surprised.

On the other side of the walls was a dumpy, trash-ridden street of the IZ, not far from an old government building of Saddam Hussein.

When her animation students at Kansas City Art Institute kept asking why the moms in Pixar have dump-truck asses, Bona Bones […] knew she had to share the answer beyond just the classroom. That’s how she found herself making a TikTok to directly answer the question: “Why do all Pixar moms have such huge dumpies?”

Word Forms

• dumpier
• dumpiest
• dumpies

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When Should You Use Dumpy?

Use dumpy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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