stunty
adj1
Stunted, tending to stunt or be stunted.
- […] yet not all equally prosperous; for a stunty, thorny nature preferring those that the cherry is always the most thriving upon are the freest clean growers.1797, Thomas Mawe, John Abercrombie, The Universal Gardener and Botanist: … Second Edition:
- I never put my axe into a stunty tree, or one that hasn't a good, fresh-looking bark; for trees have disorders just like creaters; and where's the policy of taking a tree that's sickly, any more than you'd choose a foundered horse to ride post, or ...1852 (or 1825?), The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna … by J. F. Cooper, page 198
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- Did I tell you there was a tree grew up in the centre of the alley—a stunty, short-boughed tree, ...2019, George Manville Fenn, Begumbagh: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny, Good Press:
- Derived terms
- stuntiness