1. (n.) An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.

2. (a.) Bobtailed.

Spartan abbreviated abridged abstracted aposiopestic bobbed bobtail bobtailed brief brusque canned capsule capsulized clamped clipped close close-knit close-textured close-woven compact compacted compendious compressed concentrated concise concrete congested consolidated constricted contracted crammed crammed full cramped crisp cropped crowded curt curtailed cut cut short dense digested docked elided elliptic epigrammatic firm gluey gnomic hard heavy impenetrable impermeable jam-packed jammed knitted laconic massive mowed mown nipped nonporous packed pinched pinched-in pithy pocket pointed pollard polled potted pruned puckered pursed reaped reserved sententious serried shaved sheared short short and sweet short-cut shortened snub snubbed solid solidified squeezed strangled strangulated substantial succinct summary synopsized taciturn terse thick thick-growing thickset tight to the point trimmed truncated viscid viscose viscous wasp-waisted wrinkled