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stubby
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective stubby has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
stubby, a.
- Abounding with stubs. [1913 Webster]
- Short and thick; short and strong, as bristles. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stubby, adj. & n.
--adj. (stubbier, stubbiest) short and thick.
--n. (pl. -ies) Austral. colloq. a small squat bottle of beer.
--adj. (stubbier, stubbiest) short and thick.
--n. (pl. -ies) Austral. colloq. a small squat bottle of beer.
Derivative
stubbily adv. stubbiness n.
THESAURUS
stubby
blocky, chubby, chunky, dumpy, fat, heavyset, podgy, pudgy, pug, pugged, retrousse, snub-nosed, squat, squattish, squatty, stocky, stubbed, stumpy, thick-bodied, thickset, tubby, turned-upROGET THESAURUS
stubby
Shortness
N shortness, brevity, littleness, a span, shortening, abbreviation, abbreviature, abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation, reduction, epitome, elision, ellipsis, conciseness, abridger, epitomist, epitomizer, short, brief, curt, compendious, compact, stubby, scrimp, shorn, stubbed, stumpy, thickset, pug, chunky, decurtate, retrousse, stocky, squab, squabby, squat, dumpy, little, curtailed of its fair proportions, short by, oblate, concise, summary, shortly, in short.
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