strout

See also: Strout

English

Etymology

From Middle English. See etymology of the corresponding sense of strut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɹaʊt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt

Verb

strout (third-person singular simple present strouts, present participle strouting, simple past and past participle strouted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.
   • a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:

     I will make a brief list of the particulars themselves in an historical truth , no ways strouted , nor made greater by language

2. (obsolete, intransitive) Alternative form of strut (“to swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out”)
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 222:

     The daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke)
     That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “strout”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Routts, Trotuș, Tutors, trouts, tutors

Middle English

Alternative forms

• strot, strote, strut, strutt

Etymology

From Old English *strūt, from Proto-West Germanic *strūt, from Proto-Germanic *strūtaz; compare strouten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /struːt/, /strut/

Noun

strout

1. A conflict or dispute.
2. (rare) The flaunting of fine clothes.

References

• “strǒut, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.