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Meanings of dumpy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pudgy"
Examples for "pudgy"
1
Then her pudgy body shuddered, and she let out a great cry.
2
Read on to learn what makes these cute, pudgy critters so special.
3
A pudgy hand grabbed the edge of the table and he stabilized.
4
He waved a pudgy hand in a vague circle, indicating his visage.
5
In profile, a little pudgy, he'd have made a good Santa Claus.
1
Thus tubby-like proteins may be generally involved in transciliary trafficking of GPCRs.
2
We directly examined a role for tubby in ciliary trafficking in vivo.
3
A tubby guy operating the boom microphone squawked into his Nextel walkie-talkie.
4
A shortish, tubby man whose figure added ten years to his age.
5
She shouldn't care if I get a little tubby in the middle!
1
On the podgy form of Lackaday's predecessor it produced its comic effect.
2
It wouldn't suit a plump and podgy person like myself at all.
3
A shrewd, kindly, yet subtly derisive expression lit up Kutúzov's podgy face.
4
In aspect, he was the exact opposite to the podgy Governor.
5
And I would say Monis was a bit shorter and podgy.
1
Jam roly-poly arrived on the scene in 1845, courtesy of Eliza Acton.
2
For such things had he known since he was a roly-poly puppy.
3
The roly-poly couple behind him parted to let him stumble past.
4
Fanny has made the roly-poly pudding,' says he; the chops are my part.
5
They both heard a curious roly-poly noise under the attic floor.
Usage of dumpy in English
1
Such was the highest type; the commoner was squat, dumpy, and heavy.
2
A dumpy, motherly somebody in a seal-skin coat and a preposterous bonnet.
3
And this lady with the dumpy dress and short blue curls .
4
I like restaurants that are a little bit dumpy, without much decor.
5
She was middle-aged and dumpy, and smelled of sour sweat and cigarettes.
6
Silver recognized the voice and the dumpy figure of his visitor.
7
Michael could at least have the decency to look dumpy sometimes, Maria thought.
8
One was short and dumpy, the other was tall and thin.
9
She was no longer the dumpy little matron with whom he had spoken.
10
The duchess straightened her dumpy figure to its greatest possible height.
11
She was slender, a head taller than the dumpy Mrs. Morgan.
12
The captain, who was short and dumpy, worshiped tall, plump women.
13
She had her charms, nevertheless, which consisted of a somewhat stumpy dumpy comeliness.
14
Beside him was a dark-haired woman in a dumpy gray suit.
15
It did that by itself, and a pair of short dumpy legs appeared.
16
The woman was older and dumpy, her mouth tight with disgust.
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Dumpy through the time
Dumpy across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common