stout (stout)adj. stout·er, stout·est 1. Having or marked by boldness, bravery, or determination; firm and resolute. 2. Strong in body; sturdy. 3. Strong in structure or substance; solid or substantial. 4. Bulky in figure; thickset or corpulent. See Synonyms at fat. 5. Powerful; forceful. 6. Stubborn or uncompromising: put up stout resistance to the proposal. n.1. a. A thickset or corpulent person. b. A garment size for a large or heavy figure. 2. A strong, very dark beer or ale.
[Middle English, from Old French estout, of Germanic origin; see stel- in Indo-European roots.]
stout ish adj. stoutly adv. stoutness n. |
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| Janet is a dear soul and very nicelooking; tall, but not over-tall; stoutish, yet with a certain restraint of outline suggestive of a thrifty soul who is not going to be overlavish even in the matter of avoirdupois. In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many various stores--the British colours, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco. He was a man obviously on the way towards sixty, very florid and hairy, with much gray in his bushy whiskers and thick curly hair, a stoutish body which showed to disadvantage the somewhat worn joinings of his clothes, and the air of a swaggerer, who would aim at being noticeable even at a show of fireworks, regarding his own remarks on any other person's performance as likely to be more interesting than the performance itself. |