stunty

English

Adjective

stunty (comparative more stunty, superlative most stunty)

1. Stunted, tending to stunt or be stunted.
   • 1797, Thomas Mawe, John Abercrombie, The Universal Gardener and Botanist: [...] Second Edition:

     […] yet not all equally prosperous; for a stunty, thorny nature preferring those that the cherry is always the most thriving upon are the freest clean growers.

   • 1852 (or 1825?), The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna [...] by J. F. Cooper, page 198:

     I never put my axe into a stunty tree, or one that hasn't a good, fresh-looking bark; for trees have disorders just like creaters; and where's the policy of taking a tree that's sickly, any more than you'd choose a foundered horse to ride post, or ...

   • 2019, George Manville Fenn, Begumbagh: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny, Good Press:

     Did I tell you there was a tree grew up in the centre of the alley—a stunty, short-boughed tree, ...

2. (UK, dialect) Obstinate; sullen.

   Synonym: stuntish