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Dumpy vs. Lumpy — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Dumpy and Lumpy

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Definitions

Dumpy

Short and stout; squat.

Lumpy

Covered or filled with lumps.

Dumpy

Resembling a dump, as in being messy or shabby
A dumpy apartment building.

Lumpy

Thickset or cumbersome.

Dumpy

Short and thick; stout or stocky.

Lumpy

Exhibiting short jumbled waves; choppy
Lumpy seas.
A lumpy channel.
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Dumpy

Of or relating to a garbage dump; rubbishy.

Lumpy

Full of lumps, not smooth.
I don't know which was worse, the lumpy soup or the lumpy bed.

Dumpy

A short, stout person or animal, especially one of a breed of very short-legged chickens.

Lumpy

Of a water surface: covered in many small waves as a result of wind; choppy.

Dumpy

(South Africa) A small bottle of beer.

Lumpy

Full of lumps, or small compact masses; as, a lumpy bed; a lumpy batch of dough.
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Dumpy

(surveying) dumpy level

Lumpy

Like or containing small stick lumps;
The dumplings were chunky pieces of uncooked dough

Dumpy

Synonym of dump truck.

Lumpy

Having lumps; not smooth and even in texture;
Lumpy gravy

Dumpy

Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.

Dumpy

Sullen or discontented. See 2nd dump{1}.

Dumpy

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

Dumpy

Short and fat

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