stoutish

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adjective

reasonably stout, somewhat stout

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Meanings

adjectivestoutish (not comparable)
  1. not comparablereasonably stout, somewhat stout

    Descending to the office to buy some postcards, the boys found, lounging about the desk, a stoutish man with a rather dissipated face, puffy under the eyes and heavy about the jaws.

    1912, Margaret Burnham, The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly
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    I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seaweed and things, and made a stoutish string, perhaps twelve yards in length or more, and I fastened two lumps of coral rock to the ends of this.

    1911, H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories

    In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many various stores--the British colours, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco.

    1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

Origin

From stout + -ish.

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APA

stoutish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stoutish

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“stoutish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stoutish. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stoutish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stoutish.

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