stout
要点じょうぶな、でっぷりした
意味
- (物の造作が)じょうぶな,がんじょうな,強い(strong)
- 勇敢な(brave);断固として
- (人が)でっぷりした,ずんぐりした
- (強い)黒ビール,スタウト
例文
He looked small beside my father's stout body.
がっしりした私の父の隣にいて、彼は小さく見えた。
He got so stout that his collar did not meet.
あまり太ったのでカラーの前が合わなかった。
She is plain and stout as popular stars go.
彼女は人気スターとしては無器量で肉付きがよい。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English stoute, from Old French estout (“brave, fierce, proud”) (Modern French dialectal stout (“proud”)), from earlier Old French estolt (“strong”), from Frankish *stolt, *stult (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, stand”). Cognate with Dutch stout (“stout, bold, naughty”), Low German stolt (“stately, proud”), German stolz (“proud, haughty, arrogant, stately”), Old Norse stoltr (“proud”) (Danish stolt (“proud”), Icelandic stoltur (“proud”)). Meaning "strong in body, powerfully built" was first attested in c.