stout
The origin and history of stout.
Etymology
From Old French estout ("brave, proud"), from Frankish stolt, ultimately from a root meaning "bold, proud". The original sense was about courage; the meaning shifted to "thickset, fat" as a politer way of describing size, from around 1804.
Class of 1804
stout first entered the language around 1804.
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