Stout vs Squatty - What's the difference?
stout | squatty |
large; bulky, thickset; corpulent, fat.
(obsolete) bold, strong-minded; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular.
* Shakespeare
* Clarendon
* Daniel
(obsolete) proud; haughty; arrogant; hard.
* Bible, Mal. iii. 13
* Latimer
firm; resolute; dauntless.
materially strong, enduring.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 obstinate.
A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain.
An obese person. (rfex)
A large clothing size. (rfex)
Somewhat squat.
*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 39:
*:A squatty guy with a wide-dark face came out of the door of the office building and waved and pointed.
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 5, author=George Vecsey, title=Have Health, Will Travel and Catch, work=New York Times
, passage=At 6 feet 3 inches tall, he resembles the patrician Carlton Fisk more than the squatty Thurman Munson. }}
As a proper noun stout
is .As an adjective squatty is
somewhat squat.stout
English
Adjective
(er)- a stouter champion never handled sword
- He lost the character of a bold, stout , magnanimous man.
- The lords all stand / To clear their cause, most resolutely stout .
- Your words have been stout against me.
- Commonly they that be rich are lofty and stout .
- Campers prefer stout vessels, sticks and cloth.
citation, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .}}
Derived terms
* stouten * stouthearted * stoutish * stoutly * stoutnessNoun
("stout" on Wikipedia) (en noun)- Stout is darker, stronger and sweeter than porter beer.
Anagrams
* ----squatty
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Adjective
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