From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dumpy \Dump"y\, adjective [Compar. {Dumpier}; superl. {Dumpiest}.] [
1. From {Dump} a short ill-shapen piece.
1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.
2. Sullen or discontented. See 2nd {dump[1]}. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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" [syn: {chunky}, {low-set}, {squat}, {squatty}, {stumpy}]
2: short and fat [syn: {podgy}, {pudgy}, {tubby}] [also: {dumpiest}, {dumpier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "dumpy": Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, fat, fattish, fleshy, formless, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, incipient, lusty, meager, meaty, midget, nanoid, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, pygmy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scraggy, scrubby, shapeless, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, snub-nosed, square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, stunted, swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up, undersize, undersized, unformed, well-fed, wizened
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