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dumpy
(encz) | dumpy,zavalitý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Dumpy
(gcide) | Dumpy \Dump"y\, a. [Compar. Dumpier; superl. Dumpiest.] [
1. From Dump a short ill-shapen piece.
2. From Dump sadness.]
1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately
stout.
[1913 Webster]
2. Sullen or discontented. See 2nd dump[1]. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.
[1913 Webster] |
dumpy
(wn) | dumpy
adj 1: resembling a garbage dump
2: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy
musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky";
"a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long
lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a
squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly
figure" [syn: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat,
squatty, stumpy]
3: short and plump [syn: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby,
roly-poly] |
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Dumpy
(gcide) | Dumpy \Dump"y\, a. [Compar. Dumpier; superl. Dumpiest.] [
1. From Dump a short ill-shapen piece.
2. From Dump sadness.]
1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately
stout.
[1913 Webster]
2. Sullen or discontented. See 2nd dump[1]. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.
[1913 Webster] |
Dumpy level
(gcide) | Dumpy level \Dump"y lev"el\ (Surv.)
A level having a short telescope (hence its name) rigidly
fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a
horizontal plane. The telescope is usually an inverting one.
It is sometimes called the Troughton level, from the name
of the inventor, and a variety improved by one Gavatt is
known as the Gavatt level.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
dumpy level
(wn) | Dumpy level
n 1: a surveyor's level having a short telescope fixed to a
horizontally rotating table and a spirit level |
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