Stumpy things are short and thick. Does this dress make my legs look too stumpy?. stumpy legs, fingers etc are short and thick in an unattractive way = stubby
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"