dumpy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌmpi/
• Rhymes: -ʌmpi

Etymology 1

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Adjective

dumpy (comparative dumpier, superlative dumpiest)

1. Short and thick; stout or stocky.

Translations

short and thick

• Bulgarian: тантурест (bg) (tanturest), трътлест (trǎtlest)
• Galician: toupello m
• Italian: tarchiato (it) m, tarchiata (it) f
• Maori: takapū
• Polish: przysadzisty

Noun

dumpy (plural dumpies)

1. A short, stout person or animal, especially one of a breed of very short-legged chickens.
   • 1857, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, Smith, Elder & Co., page 102:

     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.

2. (South Africa) A small bottle of beer.
   • 2007, Alan Murphy, Southern Africa, page 414:

     Lager-style beer comes in cans or dumpies (small bottles) for around US$1.10.

   • 2011 July 29, Nalisha Kalideen, “Binge drinking rife at universities”, in Mail & Guardian‎^[1]:

     “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.

3. (surveying) Ellipsis of dumpy level.
   • 2012, Raymond Paul, Walter Whyte, Basic Surveying, page 82:

     Most manufacturers have ceased making dumpies, and a number have even stopped making tilting levels, […]

Etymology 2

From dump +‎ -y.

Adjective

dumpy (comparative dumpier, superlative dumpiest)

1. Of or relating to a garbage dump; rubbishy.
   • 1983, John Bibee, The Magic Bicycle, page 17:

     "I knew it!" Barry screeched. "A dump bike for the dummy. Hey, dumpy boy. Dumper! Ha, haaaaaaaaagh!"

   • 2017, Jade Wu, Flash Points, page 145:

     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.

Noun

dumpy (plural dumpies)

1. (slang, vulgar) Synonym of dump truck (“prominent buttocks”).

   Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks

   • 2022 June 17, Jodie Walker, “What’s Really Behind the Pixar Dump-Truck Meme? A Ringer Investigation.”, in The Ringer‎^[2]:

     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?”