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Synonyms for stubby

Grammar : Adj

Spell : stuhb-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈstʌb i

Définition of stubby

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

adj short and thick

Example sentences :

Finally, the stubby scout rocket was winging its way over New York.
Extract from : « The Leech » by Phillips Barbee

The soles of the old pair were intact, but the stubby toes were protruding.
Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes

"Watch him, Stubby," said one of the young assemblyman's enemies.
Extract from : « American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt » by Edward Stratemeyer

Pieter Heemskerk stood by the ramp to the stubby G-boat and checked his watch.
Extract from : « Wind » by Charles Louis Fontenay

The ungainly, stubby forms seemed to rise from every crevice in the floor.
Extract from : « "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" » by Douglas English

"No, it won't," breaks in Old Hickory, shakin' a stubby forefinger at him.
Extract from : « Torchy, Private Sec. » by Sewell Ford

And believe muh, I mean to work up some little party for Stubby.
Extract from : « Torchy and Vee » by Sewell Ford

A short, chunky party with a stubby nose and sort of a solid-lookin' chin, he is.
Extract from : « Torchy and Vee » by Sewell Ford

He was smoking a long churchwarden, I a stubby and blackened short one.
Extract from : « The Cryptogram » by William Murray Graydon

The porter looked at the man with his white, stubby beard critically.
Extract from : « Jack O' Judgment » by Edgar Wallace

Antonyms for stubby

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