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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stubby
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
finger
▪ A stubby finger poked towards her, glistening with an enormous signet ring.
▪ Its grip consisted of brass knuckles, was a chain of rings through which Weary slipped his stubby fingers.
▪ She was short and chunky with stubby fingers tipped by closely clipped nails.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A whip hung from the centre of the stubby cross.
▪ He was leaning back in his chair smoking a long, fat cigarette in a stubby black holder.
▪ Our cottage lay on stubby cliffs close by the sea.
▪ She pictured his bare white chest, the fingers so thick and stubby for some one who made a living at dentistry.
▪ They formed a colorful mob, short and stubby.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stubby

Stubby \Stub"by\, a.

  1. Abounding with stubs.

  2. Short and thick; short and strong, as bristles.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stubby

"short and thick," 1570s, from stub (n.) + -y (2); of persons, from 1831.

Wiktionary
stubby

a. 1 Abounding with stubs. 2 Like a stub; short, especially cut short, thick and stiff; stunted; stubbed. n. (context Australia New Zealand Canada US English) A small, squat beer bottle.

WordNet
stubby

adj. short and blunt; "stubby fingers"; "a stubby pencil"

Wikipedia
Stubby

Stubby may refer to:

  • Sergeant Stubby, a decorated war dog from World War I
  • WGHR (college radio), an American radio station formerly called WSTB and nicknamed "Stubby"
  • Stubby bottle, a short beer bottle
  • Fimpen (UK title Stubby), a Swedish 1974 film directed by Bo Widerberg
  • Stubby (nickname), a list of people with the nickname
  • Stubby Kaye, stage name of American comic actor born Bernard Katzin (1918-1997)

Stubbies may refer to:

  • Stubbies (brand), an Australian clothing brand, best known for their men's shorts
  • Stubbies (surfing), a surf competition at Burleigh Heads, Queensland from 1977 to 1988
Stubby (nickname)

Stubby is a nickname for the following people:

  • Stubby Clapp (born 1973), minor league baseball hitting coach and player
  • Lee Gordon (1902-1946), American jazz musician
  • Stubby Greer (1929-1994), American minor league baseball player, coach and manager
  • Harold Kruger (1897-1965), American Olympic swimmer, actor and stunt double
  • Stubby Magner (1888-1956), American Major League Baseball player in 1911
  • Stubby Overmire (1919-1977), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Irv Ray (1864-1948), American Major League Baseball player
  • Stubby Stubblefield (1907-1935), American racecar driver

Usage examples of "stubby".

Then Oeljanov raised his right armthe one which ended in the ugly, stubby maw of a laser-sighted machine guntoward the camera.

This remarkable artefact consisted of an elemental chunk of bedrock, grey and crystalline, carved into a complex geometrical form of curves and angles, incised niches and external buttresses, surmounted at the centre by a stubby vertical prong.

Each had a barbette with a raised edge in the center and the stubby muzzle of a heavy fortress howitzer protruding from it.

And Blinky proudly pulled them a little farther down his short stubby legs.

For a moment Boshy thought his senses were playing up with him, for there in the door entrance stood the identical girl--the same turkey-egg complexion, stubby nose, and her red hair only changed from unkempt to kempt.

Thomas Cadge was darkened with disapproval, he shifted his stubby brier pipe to the other corner of his mouth, edged a little from his seat on the sunny front stoop and, craning his neck around the corner of his house, revealed an unwashed area extending from collarbone to left ear.

She could see the stubby bulk of a chariot ship, the curves of a cog, a fat paddleboat.

Felix Ordinaire took his seat, crossed his stubby legs, bouncing his ankle effeminately and sighed.

It was a flightless cormorant: scruffy and black, a thing of stubby useless wings and oily feathers.

Ford and drove out to the Roger Geis home, red brick with stubby white pillars, some fine old trees.

Noel Gouf lifted back his right foot, and swung it with all the solidiy of his short, stubby frame against the spot indicated.

Stubby wings beating up a stiff breeze, Guss dropped down from the darkness and settled onto the rolling deck.

He was a short thick-set black man, with a boxed musicom over his shoulder and a jazzer held by the grips, its stubby barrel pointed up.

Their feet made distinct thuds as they ran with the stubby, clumping gait of very heavy men Surrounding Leeming, they examined him with the same expressionless stare that lacked surprise, curiosity or any other human trait.

They were huge, flat things with nailless toes--short, stubby toes with webs between them.