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pout
1[ pout ]
verb (used without object)
- to thrust out the lips, especially in displeasure or sullenness.
- to swell out or protrude, as lips.
verb (used with object)
- to protrude (the lips).
- to utter with a pout.
noun
- the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- a fit of sullenness:
to be in a pout.
pout
2[ pout ]
noun
- a northern marine food fish, Trisopterus luscus.
pout
1/ paʊt /
noun
- short for horned pout eelpout
- any of various gadoid food fishes, esp the bib (also called whiting pout )
- any of certain other stout-bodied fishes
pout
2/ paʊt /
verb
- to thrust out (the lips), as when sullen, or (of the lips) to be thrust out
- intr to swell out; protrude
- tr to utter with a pout
noun
- sometimes the pouts a fit of sullenness
- the act or state of pouting
Derived Forms
- ˈpoutingly, adverb
- ˈpouty, adjective
Other Words From
- poutful adjective
- pouting·ly adverb
- un·pouting adjective
- un·pouting·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of pout1
Origin of pout2
Word History and Origins
Origin of pout1
Origin of pout2
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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