stout
pronunciation
How to pronounce stout in British English:
UK [staʊt]
How to pronounce stout in American English:
US [staʊt]
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- Noun:
- a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops
- a garment size for a large or heavy person
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- Adjective:
- dependable
- euphemisms for `fat'
- having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
Word Origin
- stout
- stout: [14] Stout originally meant ‘proud, brave’. It came via Anglo-Norman stout from a prehistoric West Germanic *stult- (source also of German stolz ‘proud’), which may have been related to the ancestor of English stilt. The notion of ‘braveness’ led on to that of ‘physical strength’ and ‘powerful physique’, but the word did not go downhill to ‘fat’ until the end of the 18th century. The application to a sort of strong beer dates from the 17th century.=> stilt
- stout (adj.)
- c. 1300, "proud, valiant, strong," from Old French estout "brave, fierce, proud," earlier estolt "strong," from a Germanic source from West Germanic *stult- "proud, stately, strutting" (cognates: Middle Low German stolt "stately, proud," German stolz "proud, haughty, arrogant, stately"), from PIE root *stel- "to put, stand" (see stall (n.1)). Meaning "strong in body, powerfully built" is attested from late 14c., but has been displaced by the (often euphemistic) meaning "thick-bodied, fat and large, bulky in figure," which is first recorded 1804. Original sense preserved in figurative phrase stout-hearted (1550s). Related: Stoutly; stoutness.
- stout (n.)
- 1670s, "strong beer or ale," from stout (adj.). Later especially, and now usually, "porter of extra strength" (by 1762).
Example
- 1. One stout squadron of 8-10 vikings can do this job admirably for you .
- 2. In the stores , look for fresh , bright , crispy leaves with stout stalk .
- 3. A rope closely encircled his neck . It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees .
- 4. This includes a stout casing and what is known as a permeable polymer separator , which stops the electrodes in the cell touching each other and causing a short circuit .
- 5. I 've just watched him bolt two pints of stout and two glasses of whiskey .