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Definition of Stoutish
1. a. Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.
Definition of Stoutish
1. Adjective. reasonably stout, somewhat stout ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stoutish
1. somewhat stout [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoutish
Literary usage of Stoutish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The real Mr. Dibden, he was told, was " a tall, sallow, thin old man, with a
wig," whereas he was a stoutish, somewhat jolly-looking personage, ..."
2. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"stoutish, commonly 2 ft. high; oblong-lanceolate, the base often some what
decurrent upon the petiole, whorls dense and mostly crowded; pedicels twice as ..."
3. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"Closely short-strigose and purple throughout ; rhizome oblique, short, stoutish,
sparsely hairy, bearing short whitish fleshy imbricated ..."
4. The British Hemiptera by John William Douglas, John Scott (1865)
"<J elongate, somewhat parallel; ? subelliptic. Green, clothed with short, fine,
depressed, white hairs, intermixed with stoutish somewhat erect, black ones. ..."
5. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1855)
"Antennae stout, and ochreous, scape long, second joint stoutish, elongated, ...
Petiole stoutish, with a few hairs, basal joint elongate-clavate, ..."
6. Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Most Practicable and by United States War Dept, Joseph Henry, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1855)
"Body short, stoutish and compressed, covered with large scales. The ventrals are
inserted opposite the anterior margin of the dorsal, perhaps somewhat ..."
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