2626: stout (beer) Feb 23, 2022

The beer called 'stout' bears its name because it is a strong, dark beer. If the term had come out today instead of in the 17th century, it may well have just been called 'a strong'. The root in other Germanic languages means 'proud', like the German 'Stolz', but the definition is different in English due to the euphemistic meaning that replaced the sense of 'proud; haughty' with 'fat' in the Middle Ages, and again in the 14th century with 'strong-bodied'.