a. [f. STOUT a. + -ISH1.] Somewhat stout, in senses of the adj.
1764. Caledonian Mercury, 20 Aug., 1/1. Being thus provided, a stoutish lad loads on this slide from twenty to thirty sheaves or more.
1835. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Parlour Orator. A stoutish man of about forty.
1883. Stevenson, Treas. Isl., xviii. The captain … turned out … a coil of stoutish rope.
1912. Nation, 24 Aug., 758/2. Messrs. Constable publish his proposed washing-list in a stoutish volume.
