Crossword clues for stoutest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stout \Stout\ (stout), a. [Compar. Stouter (stout"[~e]r); superl. Stoutest.] [D. stout bold (or OF. estout bold, proud, of Teutonic origin); akin to AS. stolt, G. stolz, and perh. to E. stilt.]
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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 man.
--Clarendon.The lords all stand To clear their cause, most resolutely stout.
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Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard. [Archaic]
Your words have been stout against me.
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Commonly . . . they that be rich are lofty and stout.
--Latimer.3. Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.
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Large; bulky; corpulent.
Syn: Stout, Corpulent, Portly.
Usage: Corpulent has reference simply to a superabundance or excess of flesh. Portly implies a kind of stoutness or corpulence which gives a dignified or imposing appearance. Stout, in our early writers (as in the English Bible), was used chiefly or wholly in the sense of strong or bold; as, a stout champion; a stout heart; a stout resistance, etc. At a later period it was used for thickset or bulky, and more recently, especially in England, the idea has been carried still further, so that Taylor says in his Synonyms: ``The stout man has the proportions of an ox; he is corpulent, fat, and fleshy in relation to his size.'' In America, stout is still commonly used in the original sense of strong as, a stout boy; a stout pole.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: stout)
Usage examples of "stoutest".
In a famous tournament, he entered the lists on a fiery courser, and overturned in his first career two of the stoutest of the Italian knights.
Seven of the stoutest Saracens mounted on each other's shoulders, and the weight of the column was sustained on the broad and sinewy back of the gigantic slave.
Two of the stoutest of them were clothed in Lincoln green, and a great heavy oaken staff leaned against the gnarled oak tree trunk beside each fellow.
Then one of the two, whom Partington thought to be the tallest and stoutest fellow he had ever beheld, spoke up and said, "What seekest thou of Robin Hood, Sir Page?
Keep them always by you, so that ye may tell your grandchildren, an ye are ever blessed with them, that ye are the very stoutest yeomen in all the wide world.
The stoutest Viking had dreams of fear, often he had heard men muttering in their sleep.
Thou shalt eat sweet venison and quaff the stoutest ale, and mine own good right-hand man shalt thou be, for never did I see such a cudgel player in all my life before.