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  1. intransitive verb To exhibit displeasure or disappointment; sulk.
  2. intransitive verb To protrude the lips in an expression of displeasure or sulkiness.
  3. intransitive verb To project or protrude.
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  • She began to pout, and I remembered Martin, laughing, saying that the Marigold pout meant the knives were out. —  Shattered
  • There was the blonde with the garters, a rather ample Latina with penciled eyebrows, a sultry beauty with a pout -- whose long hair might be light brown or medium blonde -- and the teenager. —  Corpse in the Camera
  • And do they pout, and have pet names? —  The Making of an American
  • "A doctor!" —  Bush Doctor's Bride
  • Below the pout, a muscle ticked. —  Warrior's Baby
 

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Etymologies (8)

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  1. Middle English pouten, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.
  2. Middle English *poute, from Old English -pūte (as in ǣlepūte, eelpout).

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  1. from Middle English *poute, from Anglo-Saxon *pūte, in comp. ǣle-pūte, eel-pout (see eel-pout); cf. Middle Dutch puyt, Dutch puit, a frog; Middle Dutch pudde, an eel-pout; ulterior origin unknown.
  2. from pout, n.
  3. from Middle English pouten; perhaps from Welsh pwdu, be sullen, pout. Cf. French bouder, pout (see boudoir). Cf. also French dial. pot, pout, potte, lip (faire la potte, ‘make a lip,’ pout), = Provencal pot, lip, modern Provencal kiss. The relations of these forms are undetermined.
  4. from pout, v.
  5. A reduction of poult. The Low German and G. pute are prob. from English
  6. Prob. from pout for pote, v.
 

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