stoutadjective
uk/staʊt/us/staʊt/stout adjective (PERSON)
(especially of older people) fat and solid-looking, especially around the waist:
Mrs Blower was the stout lady with the glasses.
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Animal physiology: fat or well-built
- ample
- baby fat
- beefy
- blubber
- broad in the beam idiom
- buxom
- chubby
- dumpy
- fatness
- fatten sb/sth up
- fatty
- heavyset
- husky
- middle-age spread
- obesity
- pudgy
- puppy fat
- roly-poly
- rotund
- well built
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stout adjective (OBJECT)
approving Stout objects are strongly made from thick, strong materials:
I bought myself a pair of good stout hiking boots.
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Physically strong and powerful
- (as) tough as old boots idiom
- almighty
- billy-o
- brute
- burly
- elemental
- high-octane
- industrial-strength
- invincible
- invulnerable
- lusty
- muscle-flexing
- omnipotent
- reckon
- stoutly
- sturdy
- superhuman
- to be reckoned with idiom
- tough
- toughie
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stout adjective (CHARACTER)
[ before noun ] literary strong and determined:
He needed a stout heart and nerves of steel.
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Strong-willed
- a firm hand idiom
- adamant
- adamantine
- aggressive
- an iron hand/fist in a velvet glove idiom
- fury
- go-getter
- going
- gutsy
- hard-boiled
- importunate
- pertinacious
- pigheaded
- purposeful
- pushy
- recalcitrant
- wilful
- will not take no for an answer idiom
- willful
- with guns blazing idiom
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stoutnoun [ U ]
uk/staʊt/us/staʊt/a dark, bitter type of beer
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Beer & cider
- ale
- beer
- beer mat
- bitter
- brew
- draft
- draught
- hoppy
- jar
- keg party
- lager
- microbrew
- mild
- mug
- pint
- rough cider
- scrumpy
- shandy
- stein
- suds
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