Stout
[staʊt]
Definition
(noun.) a garment size for a large or heavy person.
(noun.) a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops.
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Definition
(superl.) Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless.
(superl.) Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard.
(superl.) Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.
(superl.) Large; bulky; corpulent.
(n.) A strong malt liquor; strong porter.
Typist: Stephanie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Strong, sinewy, brawny, athletic, lusty, robust, sturdy, stalwart, vigorous, able-bodied.[2]. Brave, valiant, valorous, intrepid, bold, manful, manly, resolute, gallant, firm, indomitable.[3]. Large, corpulent, obese, strapping, bouncing, portly, chubby, jolly, burly, plump, fat, in good case.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Strong, lusty, vigorous, robust, sturdy, brawny, corpulent, resolute, brave,valiant, redoubtable
ANT:Weak, debile, frail, attenuated, thin, slender, lean, irresolute, feeble,cowardly, timid
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Definition
adj. strong: robust: corpulent: resolute: proud: (B.) stubborn.—n. extra strong porter.—adj. Stout′-heart′ed having a brave heart.—adv. Stout′-heart′edly.—n. Stout′-heart′edness.—adv. Stout′ly.—n. Stout′ness (B.) stubbornness.
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Examples
- I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- A footman opened the door, and a small, stout man in a shaggy astrakhan overcoat descended. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A tall, stout official had come down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged jacket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Captain did not in the least hear him or look at the stout gentleman in the nightcap, about whom he professed to have such a tender interest. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. Pickwick acknowledged the compliment, and cordially shook hands with the stout gentleman in the top-boots. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Whole ages have fled and their works decayed, And nations have scattered been; But the stout old Ivy shall never fade, From its hale and hearty green. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There, said the former, throwing him a pair of coarse, stout shoes, such as were common among the slaves, put these on. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She is stouter, too, and altogether improved, continued Miss Rosalind, who was disposed to be very fat. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Trenor, looking stouter than ever in his tight frock-coat, and unbecomingly flushed by the bridal libations, gazed at her with undisguised approval. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In a few years, when he grew stouter, he would be made a warden. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Mycroft Holmes was a much larger and stouter man than Sherlock. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She was a little pale, a little stouter in figure. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I can see with the naked eye that you gets stouter under the operation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He was light-haired and bald in 1815, and stouter in the person and in the limbs, which especially have shrunk very much of late. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Our strongest holds are not proof against a storm of hail, and even a dark cloud damps the very stoutest heart. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Boy and man, he's the noblest, stoutest heart I ever knew. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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