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.