What does "strout" mean?

To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.

Strout

Common synonyms include: swagger, swagger, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, adrian quist, adrip.

//stɹaʊt// name, verb

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Verb

1
To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut. obsolete, transitive
"I will make a brief list of the particulars themselves in an historical truth , no ways strouted , nor made greater by language"
2
Alternative form of strut (“to swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out”). alt-of, alternative, intransitive, obsolete
"The daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke) That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke."

Proper Noun

"I will make a brief list of the particulars themselves in an historical truth , no ways strouted , nor made greater by language"

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

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