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pout

1

[ pout ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to thrust out the lips, especially in displeasure or sullenness.
  2. to look or be sullen; sulk; mope.

    Synonyms: scowl, glower, brood

  3. to swell out or protrude, as lips.


verb (used with object)

  1. to protrude (the lips).
  2. to utter with a pout.

noun

  1. the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
  2. a fit of sullenness:

    to be in a pout.

pout

2

[ pout ]

noun

, plural (especially collectively) pout, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) pouts.
  1. a northern marine food fish, Trisopterus luscus.

pout

1

/ paʊt /

verb

  1. to thrust out (the lips), as when sullen, or (of the lips) to be thrust out
  2. intr to swell out; protrude
  3. tr to utter with a pout


noun

  1. sometimes the pouts a fit of sullenness
  2. the act or state of pouting

pout

2

/ paʊt /

noun

  1. short for horned pout eelpout
  2. any of various gadoid food fishes, esp the bib (also called whiting pout )
  3. any of certain other stout-bodied fishes

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Derived Forms

  • ˈpouty, adjective
  • ˈpoutingly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • poutful adjective
  • pouting·ly adverb
  • un·pouting adjective
  • un·pouting·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pout1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English pouten; probably from Old Norse; compare Swedish dialect puta “to be inflated,” Norwegian (noun) “pute ”

Origin of pout2

First recorded before 1000; Old English -pūta, in ǣlepūta “eelpout” (not recorded in Middle English ); akin to Low German pūtāl and aalputte “eelpout,” Dutch puit “frog”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pout1

C14: of uncertain origin; compare Swedish dialect puta inflated, Danish pude pillow

Origin of pout2

Old English -pūte as in ǣlepūte eelpout; related to Dutch puit frog

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Example Sentences

Rocking a man-tank, sunglasses, and sultry pout, Billy Ray looks both embarrassingly excited to be included and super confused.

Boxy flannel and messy tears might as well have been a corset and a come-hither pout in The Perfect Storm.

Wearing a white tank top and moody pout, the Biebs addresses the rumors surrounding his speculative breakdown.

Every interaction with her was fraught lest she would throw a sulk or sink into a pout.

“Well, no helicopters today,” she said with an exaggerated pout.

I hoped that he wouldnt be home to lunch; hes awful cross, said Sue, with a pout and a flush.

You wife will pout if she can't go out: but she will go out, and take a carriage.

They sulk and pout, worse than humans, if one act wins more applause than another.

Lady Thurwell, who was a thorough little dame de société, rose with a pout and shrugged her shoulders.

"Frulein came out and called Edith away," said the child, with a little pout.

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