Dictionary

strout en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /stɹaʊt/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly
   • I will make a brief list of the particulars themselves in an historical truth , no ways strouted , nor made greater by language a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
2. (alt-of, alternative, intransitive, obsolete) Alternative form of strut (“to swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out”).
   alt of strut
   • The daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke) That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke. 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 222:
   • their belly strouted out big like a great tun 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
   • strouting dugs that paggles to the ground c. 1589, Robert Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay:

Forms

Synonyms

strut