Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To exhibit displeasure or disappointment; sulk.
- v. To protrude the lips in an expression of displeasure or sulkiness.
- v. To project or protrude.
- v. To push out or protrude (the lips).
- v. To utter or express with a pout.
- n. A protrusion of the lips, especially as an expression of sullen discontent.
- n. A fit of petulant sulkiness. Often used in the plural with the.
- n. Any of various freshwater or marine fishes, especially an eelpout or hornpout.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of several fishes which have swollen or inflated parts.
- n. An eel-pout.
- n. The bib or blens, Gadus luscus; the whiting-cod: more fully called whiting-pout.
- n. In the United States, a kind of catfish, Amiurus catus, and others of this genus; a horn-pout.
- To fish or spear for pouts.
- To thrust out the lips, as in displeasure or sullenness; hence, to look sullen.
- To swell out; be plump and prominent: as, pouting lips; pouting clusters of grapes.
- To puff out or swell up the breast, as a pigeon. See pouter, 2.
- To thrust out; protrude.
- n. A protrusion of the lips as in pouting; hence, a fit of sullenness or displeasure: as, she has the pouts.
- n. A pouter pigeon. See pouter, 2.
- n. A young fowl or bird: same as poult.
- n. Figuratively, a young girl; a sweetheart.
- To go gunning for young grouse or partridges.
- n. In coal-mining, a tool used for knocking out timbers in the workings.
Wiktionary
- n. One's facial expression when pouting.
- n. A fit of sulking or sullenness.
- v. intransitive To push out one's lips.
- v. intransitive To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
- v. transitive To say while pouting.
- n. rare Shortened name of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).
- n. Alternative form of poult.
- v. Scotland To shoot poults.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl.
- v. Scot. To shoot pouts.
- v. To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen.
- v. To protrude.
- n. A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness.
- n. (Zoöl.) The European whiting pout or bib.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
- n. a disdainful grimace
- n. catfish common in eastern United States
- n. marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas
- v. be in a huff and display one's displeasure
Etymologies
- From Old English pūte as in aelepūte, from Indo-European root beu having a meaning associated with the notion "to swell". (Wiktionary)
- Middle English pouten, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.Middle English *poute, from Old English -pūte (as in ǣlepūte, eelpout). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Being from minnesota eel pout is a celebrated thing but dont forget that leech lake has some amazing walleye fishing”
“Update, 5/26: "That Jolie can act as well as pout is finally proved by this French-accented turn, moving and modulated, as the woman whose husband became roadkill on the roadmap to a never-never Middle East peace process," writes Nigel Andrews in the Financial Times.”
“If you're a tabloid fixture whose worth depends largely on how many photos are taken of you in a given day, it's a time to pose and pout, which is exactly what Kim Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton did at the Beverly Hilton Sunday night.”
“Of course, any waitress who had that kind of pout and those kind of shoes would find herself out on the street, pronto.”
“She alternates dizzily between childish giddiness and a sort of stoic, pursed-lips silence her interpretation of the model "pout" she sees on TV.”
“Pouting kids or grown women who "pout" not because of any emotion but out of the delusion that they are making their lips more attractive.”
“Evelyn was a good deal out of sorts, said Hugh, intimating by a kind of pout or swell of his very well-covered, manly, extremely handsome, perfectly upholstered body”
“She had a distinct cupid's-bow mouth which made her especially attractive, for it gave her the kind of pout that made men look twice.”
“The mouth, which, when she smiled, looked like a sword wound on the flank of a horse, now, when the "pout" is complete, looks like a crumpled concertina.”
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
“When I got to the front again the "pout" was still growing, the rich red lips in their midnight setting looking like some giant rose in full bloom that an elephant's hoof had trodden upon.”
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
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