strout

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

• IPA^(key): /stɹaʊt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt

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.

• Routts, Trotuș, Tutors, trouts, tutors

• strot, strote, strut, strutt

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

• IPA^(key): /struːt/, /strut/

strout

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

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