noun
A deliberately dark, slang term for a Shetland Pony with dramatically shortened legs and an overdeveloped body, whose proportions resemble the stereotypical limb-shortening imagery historically associated with thalidomide birth defects.
Used to describe an animal that looks comically compressed, low-slung, or “wrongly scaled,” yet is often stubbornly tough and fully functional.
A deliberately dark, slang term for a Shetland Pony with dramatically shortened legs and an overdeveloped body, whose proportions resemble the stereotypical limb-shortening imagery historically associated with thalidomide birth defects.
Used to describe an animal that looks comically compressed, low-slung, or “wrongly scaled,” yet is often stubbornly tough and fully functional.
by FastAndBulbous February 13, 2026
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