short-waisted

[ shawrt-wey-stid ]

adjective

1. of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.

short-waisted

adjective

1. unusually short from the shoulders to the waist

Word History and Origins

Origin of short-waisted¹

First recorded in 1580–90

Example Sentences

She started her letter by saying she had been considering writing it for some time after she attended Mass last autumn and saw four young women in front of her “all wearing very snug-fitting leggings and all wearing short-waisted tops.”

From Fox News

A. M. Homes’s new McCarthy-ish novel, “May We Be Forgiven,” earned her an austere, short-waisted photo straight out of the McCarthy playbook.

From New York Times

Duck-legged, short-waisted, such a dwarf she is That she must rise on tiptoe for a kiss.

From Project Gutenberg

The goats alone seem to have an exemption from all ordinary laws of gravitation, feeding against cliffs which it makes one giddy to look on only; and the short-waisted girls dropping a courtesy and blushing as they pass the stranger, emerge from the little mountain-paths, and stop by the first spring, to put on their shoes and arrange their ribands coquetishly, before entering the village.

From Project Gutenberg

Ruth was naturally what is called short-waisted; this gave her the long step which in a tall, slender woman is so enchantingly graceful.

From Project Gutenberg