stumpies

Noun

stumpie (plural stumpies)

1. A Manx cat with a short stump of a tail.
2. The honey fungus.

Noun

stumpy (countable and uncountable, plural stumpies)

1. (slang) An amputee who has lost a leg.
   • Many of the cricketers were amputees, yet they were not without resources. The "wingies" did the running for the "stumpies," and the "stumpies" did the batting for the "wingies."1976 -, Victor Cohn, Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors, →ISBN, page 63

   Synonyms:

   limby

2. (obsolete, slang, uncountable) Money.
   • Down with the stumpy; a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.1881, T. Lewis O. Davies, Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, A Supplementary English Glossary, page 630

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