a. [f. STUMBLE v. + -Y.] a. Addicted to stumbling. b. Apt to cause stumbling.
1890. J. La Farge, in Century Mag., Aug., 570/2. The miserable horses of the peasants are awfully slow and very stumbly.
1898. G. W. Steevens, With Kitchener to Khartum, 114. It is an impenetrable, flesh-tearing jungle of mimosa-spears and dom-palm and stumbly halfa-grass.