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comparative dumpier, superlative dumpiest
Short and thick; stout or stocky. examples
plural dumpies
A short, stout person or animal, especially one of a breed of very short-legged chickens. quotations examples
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.
1857, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, Smith, Elder & Co., page 102
(South Africa) A small bottle of beer. quotations examples
Lager-style beer comes in cans or dumpies (small bottles) for around US$1.10.
2007, Alan Murphy, Southern Africa, page 414
“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.
2011 July 29, Nalisha Kalideen, “Binge drinking rife at universities”, in Mail & Guardian
(surveying) Ellipsis of dumpy level. quotations examples
Most manufacturers have ceased making dumpies, and a number have even stopped making tilting levels, […]
2012, Raymond Paul, Walter Whyte, Basic Surveying, page 82
Of or relating to a garbage dump; rubbishy. quotations examples
"I knew it!" Barry screeched. "A dump bike for the dummy. Hey, dumpy boy. Dumper! Ha, haaaaaaaaagh!"
1983, John Bibee, The Magic Bicycle, page 17
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.
2017, Jade Wu, Flash Points, page 145
(slang, vulgar) Synonym of dump truck (“prominent buttocks”). quotations
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?”
2022 June 17, Jodie Walker, “What’s Really Behind the Pixar Dump-Truck Meme? A Ringer Investigation.”, in The Ringer