The word "stumpy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is short and thick in stature, similar to a tree stump. For example, "The stumpy old man hobbled down the street with a cane."
He would then cross the road that divides the Normandy hamlet of Bénouville to survey the old Pegasus bridge and the stumpy concrete monument marking the spot where his glider landed in the early minutes of 6 June 1944 in what was the first operation of D-Day.
And northerners may well think their southern cousins are stumpy, drive badly and chain-smoke.
Even its creators thought the clear, stumpy bottle looked like a hospital plasma bag.
Vestiges such as the stumpy wings of flightless birds, and the hairs that prickle on human skin just like the rising hackles on furry mammals, are further testimony to our shared origins.
Family trees of future generations will be stumpy.
At 20 she was "a piece of jailbait", a mere child, especially with the stumpy plaits into which she sometimes twisted her hair.
He was short for a heavyweight, five feet eleven, and made himself look shorter, hunching his shoulders and punching close with his stumpy, jabbing arms.
Small stumpy flippers near the front of the body were used for moving over rocky areas and for holding fast to rocks in rough seas.
The hippopotamus has a bulky body on stumpy legs, an enormous head, a short tail, and four toes on each foot.
Early, stumpy prickspurs have been found in Bohemia on 4th-century-bce Celtic sites.
Their stiff, dark green, recurved, spiky leaves grow around a stumpy corm.
