Word Meanings - STOUTISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.
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- SOMEWHAT
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. - CORPULENT
1. Very fat; obese. 2. Solid; gross; opaque. Holland. Syn. -- Stout; fleshy; bulky; obese. See Stout. - CORPULENTLY
In a corpulent manner. - STOUTLY
In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself. - STOUT-HEARTED
Having a brave heart; courageous. -- Stout"-heart"ed*ness, n. - STOUTISH
Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent. - STOUT
; akin to AS. stolt, 1. Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless. With hearts stern and stout. Chaucer. A stouter champion never handled sword. Shak. He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous - STOUTNESS
The state or quality of being stout. Syn. -- Strength; bulk; courage; force; valor; lustiness; brawniness; boldness; fortitude; stubbornness.