dumpy

English

First attested in 1750; exact origin unknown. Perhaps derived from, or cognate with, dumpling, or from the noun sense of dump.^[1]

dumpy (comparative dumpier, superlative dumpiest)

short and thick

dumpy (plural dumpies)

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.
(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.
(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, […]

From dump +‎ -y.

dumpy (comparative dumpier, superlative dumpiest)

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.

dumpy (plural dumpies)

(slang) 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?”