/staʊt/, /stʌʊt/
OriginFrom 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" is attested from 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.
- Large; bulky.
“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.”
- obsoleteBold, strong-minded.
“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.”
- obsoleteProud; haughty.
“Your words have been stout against me.”
“Commonly […] they that be rich are lofty and stout.”
- Firm; resolute; dauntless.
“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.”
- Materially strong, enduring.
“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 p”
“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 … .”
- Obstinate.
- A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain.
“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.”
- A serving of this beer.
- An obese person.
“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”
- A large clothing size.
“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”
- Gnat.
- Gadfly.
- dialectalFirefly or miller (moth).
- archaic, intransitiveTo be bold or defiant.
- dialectal, transitiveTo persist, endure.
- countable, uncountableA surname.
- countable, uncountableA former town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States.
- countable, uncountableA minor city in Grundy County, Iowa, United States.
- countable, uncountableSynonym of Rome, Adams County, Ohio.
Formsstouter(comparative) · stoutest(superlative) · stout(canonical) · the malt brew stout(canonical) · stouts(plural) · stouts(present, singular, third-person) · stouting(participle, present) · stouted(participle, past) · stouted(past) · stoat(alternative, dialectal) · stut(alternative, dialectal) · Stouts(plural)