[f. STUMP sb.1 + -Y.]
1. A spritsail barge.
1881. Standard, 22 June, 3/7. The Committee boat, having steamed up to the stumpies…, gave an opportunity of witnessing a very interesting contest.
1889. A. T. Pask, Eyes Thames, 32. A craft that is known on the river as a ‘stumpy,’ i.e. a barge without a top-sail.
2. slang. Money. Cf. STUMP sb.1 16.
1828. Lights & Shades, II. 7. He inquired whether I had any other dibbs, any more blunt or stumpy, any more money.
1835. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Last Cab-driver. Till they was rig’larly done over, and forked out the stumpy.
1837. T. Hook, Jack Brag, ii. Send up the stumpy by to-night’s post.
1844. J. T. Hewlett, Parsons & W., xlii. I am short of ready stumpy.
1850. Kingsley, Alton Locke, ii. Down with the stumpy—a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.
1859. Hotten’s Slang Dict., 104. Stumpy, money.
