Sc. [f. STUMP sb.1 + -IE.]
1. Playfully used for: The stump of a pen.
1785. Burns, 2nd Epist. J. Lapraik, vi. Sae I gat paper in a blink, An’ down gaed stumpie in the ink.
1821. W. Liddle, Poems, 181. If I can do’t afore I leave ye, Wi’ ink and stumpie.
2. A person with a stumpy figure. Also, a small child.
1820. Glenfergus, III. 142. These upstart stumpies, the Lumgaires, and their manœuvring mother, are determined to secure the coronet.
1866. J. Smith, Merry Bridal, 7. Weel tether’d, weel gether’d, They ’gree’d like yowe an’ lamb, Wi’ meal-cogs an’ kail-cogs For stumpies when they cam’.
