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Stout

adjective

(compar. stouter; superl. stoutest)

Dependable. Synonym: stalwart. "A stalwart supporter of the UN" , "Stout hearts"

Euphemisms for 'fat'. Synonym: portly.

Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships. Synonyms: hardy, stalwart, sturdy. "Proud of her tall stalwart son" , "Stout seamen" , "Sturdy young athletes"

noun

A strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops.

A garment size for a large or heavy person.

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"Stout" Quotes from Famous Books

... that Jack should be able to box the compass before he had been three months nibbling the ship's biscuit; further, that it was very easy to get over the examination necessary to qualify him for lieutenant, as a turkey and a dozen of brown stout sent in the boat with him on the passing day, as a present to each of the passing captains, would pass him, even if he were as incompetent as a camel (or, as they say at sea, a cable,) to pass through the eye of a needle; that having once passed, he would soon have him ...

— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat

... and her husband lived with her, but it was necessary for her to take other boarders. One day there was a vigorous rap upon the stout door of the blockhouse, and a young man whose name was Andrew Jackson was admitted. Shortly afterward, he took up his abode as a regular ...

— Threads of Grey and Gold • Myrtle Reed

... came all the notables of the district who claimed kinship with Ko-boru, and they sat in a great circle about the headman's hut, alternately eyeing the old headman and their stout ...

— The Keepers of the King's Peace • Edgar Wallace

... complexity—of nature and real life, and is for ever trying to get away from it by selecting this and ignoring that. And it contrives so well that I suppose the average man is not consciously aware twice a year of that conglomerate of details which the critics call real life. He holds one stout thread, at any rate, to guide him through the maze—the thread ...

— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... costume nor in real masquerade. The older lords and ladies of the court were trying to humor their young Queen's whim without parting with any of their dignity, and the result of their attempt was this very curious sight—tall, stiff goblins, wearing elaborate, powdered wigs and jeweled swords, stout wood-nymphs with bare arms and shoulders, ...

— Historic Boyhoods • Rupert Sargent Holland

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