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adjective

Stout adj. (compar. stouter; superl. stoutest)

Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless. "With hearts stern and stout." "A stouter champion never handled sword." "He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man." "The lords all stand To clear their cause, most resolutely stout."

Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard. (Archaic) "Your words have been stout against me." "Commonly... they that be rich are lofty and stout."

Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.

Large; bulky; corpulent.

Synonyms: Stout, Corpulent, Portly. Corpulent has reference simply to a superabundance or excess of flesh. Portly implies a kind of stoutness or corpulence which gives a dignified or imposing appearance. Stout, in our early writers (as in the English Bible), was used chiefly or wholly in the sense of strong or bold; as, a stout champion; a stout heart; a stout resistance, etc. At a later period it was used for thickset or bulky, and more recently, especially in England, the idea has been carried still further, so that Taylor says in his Synonyms: "The stout man has the proportions of an ox; he is corpulent, fat, and fleshy in relation to his size." In America, stout is still commonly used in the original sense of strong as, a stout boy; a stout pole.

noun

stout n. A strong, dark malt brew having a higher percentage of hops than porter; strong porter; a popular variety sold in the U. S. is Guinness' stout.

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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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