stumpy

From stump +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstʌmpi/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmpi

stumpy (comparative stumpier, superlative stumpiest)

1. Like or resembling a stump; short and cut off.
2. Full of stumps.

   a stumpy forest

stumpy (countable and uncountable, plural stumpies)

1. (slang) An amputee who has lost a leg.

   Synonym: limby

   • 1976 -, Victor Cohn, Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors, →ISBN, page 63:

     Many of the cricketers were amputees, yet they were not without resources. The "wingies" did the running for the "stumpies," and the "stumpies" did the batting for the "wingies."

2. (uncountable, slang, obsolete) Money.
   • 1881, T. Lewis O. Davies, Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, A Supplementary English Glossary, page 630:

     Down with the stumpy; a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.

• stump up

• (money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary