dumpy

dumpy
    adj 1: resembling a garbage dump
    2: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy
       musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky";
       "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long
       lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a
       squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly
       figure" [syn: {chunky}, {dumpy}, {low-set}, {squat},
       {squatty}, {stumpy}]
    3: short and plump [syn: {dumpy}, {podgy}, {pudgy}, {tubby},
       {roly-poly}]
    

Dumpy \Dump"y\, a. [Compar. {Dumpier}; superl. {Dumpiest}.] [
   1. From {Dump} a short ill-shapen piece.

   2. From {Dump} sadness.]

   1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately
      stout.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Sullen or discontented. See 2nd {dump[1]}. [Prov. Eng.]
      --Halliwell.
      [1913 Webster]
    

86 Moby Thesaurus words for "dumpy":
      Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated,
      blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky,
      corpulent, distended, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, fat,
      fattish, fleshy, formless, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy,
      imposing, incipient, lusty, meager, meaty, midget, nanoid, obese,
      overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy,
      puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, pygmy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund,
      rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scraggy, scrubby, shapeless,
      shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, snub-nosed, square, squat, squattish,
      squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby,
      stumpy, stunted, swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy,
      tubby, turned-up, undersize, undersized, unformed, well-fed,
      wizened