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stubby

adjective as in short and thick

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You don't get a tick in the box if the name on the ballot paper means nothing to the voter clutching their stubby pencil in the voting booth.

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It didn’t matter that I wasn’t naked, or that no one touched me, or that it was just my stubby toes.

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He skins Walking Mushrooms with care, tosses their stubby feet into a hot pot with an eye for balance and umami.

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A stubby flutter of greenery at a gas station, and a lofty palm behind an IHOP.

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A seafaring albatross, stretching out its sail-like airfoils, lives a very different life from a ground-dwelling antpitta with its long legs and short, stubby wings that it uses in rare, short bursts of flight.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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