snubby

snubby (plural snubbies)

1. A revolver with a barrel length of 3 inches (76.2 mm) or less.
   • 2015, B. Gil Horman, “The Return of the Ruger SP101.327 Fed. Mag.,” American Rifleman, 17 June, 2015,

     Accessories for this version of the SP101 are not as diverse as those available for the five-shot snubby, but excellent add-ons are available.

• snubnosed revolver

snubby (comparative snubbier or more snubby, superlative snubbiest or most snubby)

1. Short, stumpy.
   • 1842, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Peg of Limavady” in The Irish Sketchbook, lines 69-72,

     Both have mottled legs,

     Both have snubby noses,

     Both have—Here the host

     Kindly interposes:

   • 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, Chapter 7,

     Well, for more than five years that was me—an alert young chap with a round, pink, snubby kind of face and butter-coloured hair […]

   • 2000, R. Z. Sheppard, “Follow the Paper,” Time, 28 February, 2000,

     Armed with snubby flintlock and limber blade, Weaver does his crime busting in London during the second decade of the 18th century.

   • 2006, L. J. K. Setright, Long Lane with Turnings: Last Words of a Motoring Legend, London: Granta Books, p. 36,

     There was not much of it: the wheelbase was only ninety inches and the track precisely half of that, with a little cast-iron side-valve engine of 918cm² cowering in the depths beneath the snubby bonnet.

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