"stoutish" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: stout + -ish Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|stout|ish}} stout + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} stoutish (not comparable)
  1. reasonably stout, somewhat stout Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-stoutish-en-adj-7aVv~n9v Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ish

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          "ref": "1912, Margaret Burnham, The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly",
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          "ref": "1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island",
          "text": "In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many various stores--the British colours, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco.",
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