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portly

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English

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Etymology

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From an archaic sense ofport(“manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage”) +‎-ly.

Pronunciation

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(UK)IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːtli/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
(General American)IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹtli/,/ˈpoʊɹtli/
(General Australian)IPA^(key): /ˈpoːtliː/
Rhymes:-ɔː(ɹ)tli

Adjective

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portly (comparativeportlier,superlativeportliest)

Somewhatfat,pudgy,overweight.[from 15th c.]
- 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym;Washington Irving], “Introduction”, inTales of a Traveller, part 1 (Strange Stories. […]), Philadelphia, Pa.:H[enry] C[harles] Carey &I[saac] Lea, […],→OCLC:
  Indeed, the poor man has grown ten times as nervous as ever, since he has discovered, on such good authority, who the stout gentleman was. . . . He has anxiously endeavored to call up a recollection of what he saw of thatportly personage; and has ever since kept a curious eye on all gentlemen of more than ordinary dimensions.
- 1851 November 14,Herman Melville, chapter 32, inMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers; London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC,page151:
  In the length he attains, and in his baleen, the Fin-back resembles the right whale, but is of a lessportly girth, and a lighter colour, approaching to olive.
- 1913,P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, inThe Little Nugget:
  Hisportly middle section, rising beyond like a small hill, heaved rhythmically.
- 2011 July 6, Nick Carbone, “Top 10 Worst Fictional Camp Counselors”, inTime, retrieved8 May 2014:
  InHeavyweights, Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller) is a fitness guru who installs himself as the über-buff leader of Camp Hope, with the goal of helpingportly youngsters shed their saggy stomachs and thunder thighs.
(now rare) Having a dignifiedbearing;handsome,imposing.[from 15th c.]
- c.1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published1592,→OCLC; reprinted asTamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,Act I, scene ii:
  He ſends this Souldans daughter rich and braue,
  To be my Queene andportly Empereſſe,[…]
- 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:
  Portly his person was, and much increast
  Through his Heroicke grace and honourable gest.
- 1728,Jonathan Swift,A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy:
  Be studious well to imitate
  Myportly motion, mien, and gait