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Short and thick, in a way that looks a bit or . Used of legs, fingers, a tail, a tower, a bottle — anything that seems too short for how wide it is. The word carries a small judgement: 'short fingers' is neutral, 'stumpy fingers' is not quite a compliment. But how it sounds depends completely on who is speaking. Said about a dog, a or a baby it is often — a corgi's stumpy legs are part of why people love corgis. Said about an adult's body, it stings, so English speakers avoid it there unless they mean to be rude or are laughing at themselves. It is informal and quite descriptive, the kind of word you meet in a story rather than in a report. You can also use it of a whole person's shape: 'a stumpy little man' — squat, low to the ground, wide.
短粗的、矮胖的(帶點不好看的意味)
組成stump + -y. The -y ending on a noun means 'like that thing' — so stumpy is 'like a stump', short and thick where a tree once stood.
同家族的字
- stumpthe short thick remainder of a cut tree; the -y ending means 'like a stump'
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
stumpyadj/ˈstʌmpi/
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Like or resembling a stump; short and cut off.
- “That’s better. Gilbert Goodie! I should have known it was you. The one-legged layabout. The uni-ped idler. The stumpy skiver. Stealing coins from a wishing well now, are we? You couldn’t make it up!”
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Full of stumps.
- a stumpy forest
stumpynoun/ˈstʌmpi/
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slangAn amputee who has lost a leg.
- Many of the cricketers were amputees, yet they were not without resources. The "wingies" did the running for the "stumpies," and the "stumpies" did the batting for the "wingies."
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obsoleteslangMoney.
- Down with the stumpy; a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。