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stoutish

adj

Etymology

From stout + -ish.

  1. derived from *stel-✻ — “to put, stand”
  2. derived from *stultaz✻ — “bold, proud”
  3. derived from *stolt✻
  4. derived from estolt — “strong”
  5. derived from estout — “brave, fierce, proud”
  6. inherited from stoute
  7. suffixed as stoutish — “stout + ish”

Definitions

  1. reasonably stout, somewhat stout

    • Descending to the office to buy some postcards, the boys found, lounging about the desk, a stoutish man with a rather dissipated face, puffy under the eyes and heavy about the jaws.
    • I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seaweed and things, and made a stoutish string, perhaps twelve yards in length or more, and I fastened two lumps of coral rock to the ends of this.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA