"dumpy" is a valid word in English.
It is an adjective used to describe something short, stocky, and stout in shape. It can also be used figuratively to describe someone who is dull, uninteresting, or without ambition. Example sentence: The dumpy professor seemed to lecture on endlessly without pause.
Tarra Erraught, the singer playing Octavian at Glyndebourne, was called "dumpy of stature...her costuming makes her resemble something between Heidi and Just William".
ON THE face of it the A400M, a dumpy military transport made by Airbus, and Boeing's sleek 787 Dreamliner (pictured) have little in common other than that they both flew for the first time in the past few days.
With treasonous relish, this crown was seized in 1961 by the Empress State Building, a dumpy pile of concrete and glass, ignored by all but those unlucky enough to work near it.
The finned and chromed V8-powered monsters beloved of Americans were replaced by dumpy, front-wheel-drive boxes designed to meet new rules (known as CAFE standards) limiting the average fuel economy of carmakers' fleets and to compete with Japanese imports.
This helped to prepare the great expansion of The Economist's circulation in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.In this section William Faulkner, past and future The left rises from the almost-dead Jam tomorrow God on horseback Nancy Balfour Horribly ensnared ReprintsNancy Balfour was a small, dumpy woman with a strongly upper-class English accent.
IN SCANDINAVIAN folklore trolls were dumpy with grotesque faces and uncontrollable hair.
The tiny components had minuscule feet for connectors instead of lengthy wire leads that could be easily grapsed by even dumpy fingers.
That shows a dumpy, youngish face, with drooping eyes peering above a thick, triangular, moustache the sort one might buy in a joke shop.
The cover identity she is assigned is a frumpy, dumpy midwesterner whose favourite hobby is crocheting.
Mr McInerney's prose is plain to the point of dumpy.
"It's the same dumpy old Monica telling the same dumpy old story," says Max Clifford, doyen of British publicists.
