stout
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: beer
beverages
food
lifestyle
Etymology: 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," which is first recorded 1804. Original sense preserved in stout-hearted (1552).
The noun "strong, dark-brown beer" is first recorded 1677, from the adjective.
Inflected forms:
form: stouter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: stoutest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Large; bulky.
pos: adj
examples: Yossarian walked out of the office and down the stairs into the dark, tomblike street, passing in the hall the stout woman with warts and two chins, who was already on her way back in.
gloss: Bold, strong-minded.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Art thou but Captaine of a thouſand horſe,
That by Characters grauen in thy browes,
And by thy martiall face and ſtout aſpect,
Deſeru’ſt to haue the leading of an hoſte?
a stouter champion never handled sword.
He quickly lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man.
The lords all stand / To clear their cause, most resolutely stout.
gloss: Proud; haughty.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Your words have been stout against me.
Commonly […] they that be rich are lofty and stout.
gloss: Firm; resolute; dauntless.
pos: adj
examples: he had reason to be extremely grateful to Sterling, his Manchester City teammate, who won and converted the penalty that appeared to have broken Iceland’s stout resistance.
So, Andover featured in the Glorious Revolution, which involved the deposition of Catholic fraterniser James II and his replacement by stout Protestants William and Mary.
gloss: Materially strong, enduring.
pos: adj
examples: Campers prefer stout vessels, sticks and cloth.
[…] Pipes, who acted as the enemy's forlorn hope, advanced to the gate with great intrepidity, and clapping his foot to the door, which was none of the ſtouteſt, with the execution and diſpatch of a petard, ſplit it into a thouſand pieces.
Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .
gloss: Obstinate.
pos: adj
gloss: A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain.
pos: noun
examples: Stout is darker, stronger and sweeter than porter beer.
To be precise, he had an immense plate of steak and oysters, and a bottle of stout.
gloss: A serving of this beer.
pos: noun
gloss: An obese person.
pos: noun
examples: Incidentally the survey pointed up the sad plight of the stylish stouts, today's “forgotten men.” The clothing situation is getting so critical for them that they may have to choose between eating and dressing.
gloss: A large clothing size.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Derived words: midstout
overstout
stouten
stouthearted
stoutish
stout-legged moa
stoutly
stoutness
unstout
breakfast stout
double stout
Imperial stout
invalid stout
milk stout
pastry stout
stouty
white stout
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: vendosur
lang: Bulgarian
word: твърд
roman: tvǎrd
lang: Bulgarian
word: упорит
roman: uporit
lang: Czech
word: rozhodný
lang: Czech
word: neústupný
lang: Czech
word: tvrdý
lang: Finnish
word: päättäväinen
lang: Finnish
word: luja
lang: German
word: fest
lang: German
word: resolut
lang: Italian
word: risoluto
lang: Italian
word: fermo
lang: Macedonian
word: цврст
roman: cvrst
lang: Macedonian
word: тврд
roman: tvrd
lang: Māori
word: manawanui
lang: Russian
word: про́чный
roman: próčnyj
lang: Russian
word: кре́пкий
roman: krépkij
lang: Spanish
word: resoluto
lang: Spanish
word: firme