Stoutish

Quick meaning: Stoutish is an adjective meaning reasonably stout, somewhat stout.

Meaning

reasonably stout, somewhat stout.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stuffy, stouty, sturdy, tallish, stout-hearted, sturdied.

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