snubby

English

Noun

snubby (plural snubbies)

1. A revolver with a barrel length of 3 inches (76.2 mm) or less.
   • 2015, B. Gil Horman, “The Return of the Ruger SP101.327 Fed. Mag.,” American Rifleman, 17 June, 2015,^[1]

     Accessories for this version of the SP101 are not as diverse as those available for the five-shot snubby, but excellent add-ons are available.

Synonyms

• snubnosed revolver

Adjective

snubby (comparative snubbier or more snubby, superlative snubbiest or most snubby)

1. Short, stumpy.
   • 1842, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Peg of Limavady” in The Irish Sketchbook, lines 69-72,^[2]

     Both have mottled legs,

     Both have snubby noses,

     Both have—Here the host

     Kindly interposes:

   • 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, Chapter 7,^[3]

     Well, for more than five years that was me—an alert young chap with a round, pink, snubby kind of face and butter-coloured hair […]

   • 2000, R. Z. Sheppard, “Follow the Paper,” Time, 28 February, 2000,^[4]

     Armed with snubby flintlock and limber blade, Weaver does his crime busting in London during the second decade of the 18th century.

   • 2006, L. J. K. Setright, Long Lane with Turnings: Last Words of a Motoring Legend, London: Granta Books, p. 36,^[5]

     There was not much of it: the wheelbase was only ninety inches and the track precisely half of that, with a little cast-iron side-valve engine of 918cm² cowering in the depths beneath the snubby bonnet.

Synonyms

• snub