What is "stoutish"

Usage examples of "stoutish".

True, he was a bit stoutish, but he had kindly, sympathetic eyes and the manner of one who had done a little suffering on his own accord.

She met Sister Gates by at the bottom of the second flight and that lady, stoutish and almost due to retire, seized on her at once.

The hands then dropped to the stoutish stomach and he felt and tapped that also before transferring the hands to the outside of his trouser pockets where he patted again.

Emmaline had also shrunk her angelic proportions so that she resembled a kindly faced, stoutish woman of average height.

There was little furniture save an old red sofa, and on this was seated a stoutish man in the garb of a Belgian soldier, with his elbows on his knees and his bearded cheeks resting on his doubled fists.

A pleasant-looking, stoutish, middle-aged man who never seemed to consider himself cozily dressed for his own fire-side without his hat and top-boots, but who never wore a coat except at church.

White Mason was a quiet, comfortable-looking person in a loose tweed suit, with a clean-shaved, ruddy face, a stoutish body, and powerful bandy legs adorned with gaiters, looking like a small farmer, a retired gamekeeper, or anything upon earth except a very favourable specimen of the provincial criminal officer.

A footman was handing out a short, stoutish woman and escorting her up the steps.

He got up as she came in and introduced her to a stoutish, white-haired old man in a dinner-jacket.

The guns came down and bore on one of the loners he had been looking at, a short, stoutish boy who was wearing a battered green silk vest.

Stern, a stoutish man with a high, freckled forehead and a gentle voice, was the center of a small ring of faculty members.

Not because Mrs Lynn Markham fittedthe profile of a pyromaniac -anoccupation pursued bymore young men than stoutish fifty-year-old grandmothers,as indeed is commercial travelling -butbecauseCastle Card & Board was a subsidiary of CornmarketTrading and Cornmarket Trading was owned by AsilYounis.

She was sharing a table—though she was not eating or drinking—with a well-dressed, well-fed, stoutish man of middle age, named Ambrose Altamont, a commoner very recently come into startling wealth.