The meaning of Stubby

adjective

Plump and rounded.

Usage examples:

A pretty child with chubby cheeks

adjective

(esp. of children) rounded in a pleasant and attractive way

Usage examples:

The perfect baby has, we are told, chubby little fingers and toes, chubby legs, and chubby cheeks.

adjective

Bulky and thick.

Usage examples:

A chunky bracelet

adjective

Made of thick or lumpy pieces

Usage examples:

She wears chunky earrings and rings and a baggy sweater., i love chunky peanut butter!, she’s a chu…

adjective

Extremely or unusually small.

Usage examples:

A diminutive figure dressed in black

noun

A diminutive word or suffix.

Usage examples:

The word is a diminutive of inland navigator, referring to the men who built the canals that preced…

adjective

Small

Usage examples:

My grandmother was a diminutive woman, less than 5 feet tall.

adjective

(of a person) short and stout.

Usage examples:

The dress made her look dumpy

adjective

(of a place) dirty and run-down.

Usage examples:

A dumpy one-room apartment

adjective

Short and fat

Usage examples:

Does this dress make me look dumpy?

adjective

Very small, or smaller than usual

Usage examples:

The animals were dwarfish and the plants didn't have enough nutrients., the vegetation on the islan…

adjective

Fat and squat.

Usage examples:

The fubsy man waddled forward, nearly half the height of the beautiful woman, and merely stared at …

adjective

Rather short and fat

Usage examples:

The actor plays the fubsy assistant store manager with surprising firearm skills.

adjective

(of a person) broad and strongly built.

Usage examples:

A heavyset, bull-necked man wearing a t-shirt that revealed his powerful musculature

adjective

Having a large, wide body

Usage examples:

He is a heavyset man with a beautiful tenor voice.

adjective

Small in size, amount, or degree (often used to convey an appealing diminutiveness or express an affectionate or condescending attitude).

Usage examples:

The plants will grow into little bushes

adverb

To a small extent.

Usage examples:

He reminded me a little of my parents

determiner & pronoun

A small amount of.

Usage examples:

We got a little help from a training scheme

adjective

Having a strong body with wide shoulders, a narrow waist, and hard muscles

Usage examples:

Sprinters tend to have muscular, mesomorphic bodies and a high proportion of fast-twitch muscle fib…

adjective

Occurring as nuggets.

Usage examples:

Nuggety gold

adjective

Relating to or denoting a stocky physique with a rounded body and head, thickset trunk, and a tendency to fat.

Usage examples:

One's physical or bodily shape can be classified into the pyknic type, the muscular type and the in…

adjective

Measuring a small distance from end to end.

Usage examples:

Short dark hair

verb

(of a vowel) categorized as short with regard to quality and length (e.g. in standard british english the vowel /ʊ/ in good is short as distinct from the long vowel /uː/ in food ).

noun

Short trousers that reach only to the knees or thighs.

Usage examples:

Cycling shorts

adjective

Of a size that is less than normal or usual.

Usage examples:

The room was small and quiet

adverb

Into small pieces.

Usage examples:

Cut the okra up small

plural noun

Small items of clothing, especially underwear.

Usage examples:

Do we know if secreted about his smalls he has a pair of boxer shorts in either the ancient or red …

adjective

Firm and stable in shape; not liquid or fluid.

Usage examples:

The stream was frozen solid

noun

A substance or object that is solid rather than liquid or fluid.

Usage examples:

I was reminded of high school physics where we learned that solids conduct sound better than both l…

adjective

Having a fixed shape that cannot be changed easily

Usage examples:

After flying all night, he was glad to be on solid ground., solid rock, a solid oak table, solid go…

verb

Crouch or sit with one's knees bent and one's heels close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs.

Usage examples:

I squatted down in front of him

adjective

Short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide.

Usage examples:

He was muscular and squat

noun

A squatting position.

Usage examples:

She fell back into a squat from the kneeling position he had raised her to.

adjective

Broad and sturdily built.

Usage examples:

He had a short, stocky body

adjective

(esp. of a man) wide and strong-looking

Usage examples:

He was shorter and stockier than i expected.

adjective

Short and thick; squat.

Usage examples:

Weak stumpy legs

adjective

Short and thick

Usage examples:

There was a large ring on each of her stumpy fingers.

adjective

(of a person or their body) strongly and solidly built.

Usage examples:

He had a sturdy, muscular physique

noun

Vertigo in sheep caused by a tapeworm larva encysted in the brain.

adjective

Strong or solid

Usage examples:

That ladder doesn’t look sturdy enough to hold you.

adjective

(of a person or animal) heavily or solidly built; stocky.

Usage examples:

A thickset boy with dark greasy hair

adjective

A thickset person, especially a man, has a body that is wide across the shoulders and chest and is short

Usage examples:

A thickset young man appeared in the doorway.

adjective

Of less than the usual size.

Usage examples:

The undersized cubs may not survive the winter

adjective

Smaller than average, or smaller than the correct size

Usage examples:

An undersized, malnourished boy

adjective

Little.

Usage examples:

When i was just a wee bairn

noun

Urine.

Usage examples:

There was wee all over the floor

verb

Urinate.

Usage examples:

Mummy comes in and takes her top and knickers off when she is drunk and wees on the carpet.