GC: n
S: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24034948 (last access: 16 January 2015); http://www.eudict.com/?lang=engrom&word=stoutness;%20burliness;%20portliness;%20corpulence;%20corpulency (last access: 16 January 2015).
N: 1. From stout (adj): c.1300, «proud, valiant, strong,» from Old French estout «brave, fierce, proud,» earlier estolt «strong,» from a Germanic source from West Germanic stult- «proud, stately, strutting» (cognates: Middle Low German stolt «stately, proud,» German stolz «proud, haughty, arrogant, stately»), from PIE root stel- «to put, stand». Meaning «strong in body, powerfully built» is attested from late 14c., but has been displaced by the (often euphemistic) meaning «thick-bodied, fat and large, bulky in figure,» which is first recorded 1804. Original sense preserved in figurative phrase stout-hearted (1550s). Related: Stoutly; stoutness.
2. The property of excessive fatness.
S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=stoutness&searchmode=none (last access: 16 january 2015). 2. http://www.audioenglish.org/dictionary/stoutness.htm (last access: 16 january 2015).
SYN: 1. portliness. 2. bunogaster.
S: 1. GDT (last access: 16 January 2015). 2. IATE (last access: 16 January 2015).
CR: body mass index, obesity, overweight.
