stout

CEFRB2

/staʊt/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Strong and thick in build.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Bold, strong-minded.

Examples

  • He looked small beside my father's stout body.

  • My uncle is slender, but my aunt is stout.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /stʌʊt/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Proud; haughty.

  2. Large; bulky.

  3. Firm; resolute; dauntless.

More examples

In context

  • Campers prefer stout vessels, sticks and cloth.

  • Stout is darker, stronger and sweeter than porter beer.

  • 1918, Isidor Rosenfeld, The Practical Designer for Women's and Misses' Underwear - The Study of the Stout Form The all-around waist is increased or over-built, according to size, which makes this form a stout.

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English stoute, from Old French estout (“brave, fierce, proud”) (Modern French dialectal stout (“proud”)), from earlier Old French estolt (“strong”), from Frankish *stolt, *stult (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, stand”). Cognate with Dutch stout (“stout, bold, naughty”), Low German stolt (“stately, proud”), German stolz (“proud, haughty, arrogant, stately”), Old Norse stoltr (“proud”) (Danish stolt (“proud”), Icelandic stoltur (“proud”)). Meaning "strong in body, powerfully built" was first attested in c. 1386, but has been to a large extent displaced by the euphemistic meaning "thick-bodied, fat and large,"...