Dumpy vs. Lumpy

Dumpyadjective

short and thick; stout or stocky

Lumpyadjective

Full of lumps, not smooth.

‘I don't know which was worse, the lumpy soup or the lumpy bed.’;

Dumpynoun

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

Lumpyadjective

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

Dumpynoun

(South Africa) A small bottle of beer.

Lumpyadjective

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

Dumpyadjective

Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.

Lumpyadjective

like or containing small stick lumps;

‘the dumplings were chunky pieces of uncooked dough’;

Dumpyadjective

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

Lumpyadjective

having lumps; not smooth and even in texture;

‘lumpy gravy’;

Dumpyadjective

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’;

Dumpyadjective

short and fat