Shout about a very intimidating presence (5)
I believe the answer is:
heavy
'intimidating presence' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'shout about a very' is the wordplay.
'shout' becomes 'heay' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'a very' becomes 'v' (common abbreviation).
'heay' enclosing 'v' is 'HEAVY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for heavy that I've seen before include "Difficult to lift" , "Hard to lift" , "Villain" , "Stodgy; difficult" , "Not light" .)