stubby

Nine university students entered the preliminaries this year, wrestling bulls weighing hundreds of kilograms and sporting hard, stubby horns.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

“They’re snitches,” he said, raising a stubby thermal scope to one eye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

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.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025

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

From Salon ● May 12, 2025

I struggled and kicked with legs and arms that seemed much too stubby, and then I was staring, horrified, into the enormous face of C.C.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

They're essentially shorter, stubbier, and wider pasta noodles, compared to rigatoni.

From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2022

Passed between multiple chambers by a second, stubbier robotic arm on the rover’s underbelly, the sample was sized up and photographed before finally being hermetically sealed and cached.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 6, 2021

Those sycamores are expanding horizontally, creating a canopy over the stubbier plants.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021

Do I have certain neural connections that are shorter and stubbier than most people’s?

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2019

Younger animals, particularly females, are often stubbier and somewhat barrel-shaped behind the head.

From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by Caldwell, David