Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that pouts.
- noun Any of several breeds of domestic pigeon capable of distending the crop until the breast becomes puffed out.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which pouts. Specifically
- noun A long-legged breed of domestic pigeons, named from their characteristic habit of pouting, or puffing up the breast, sometimes to surprising size and almost globular shape.
- noun Same as
pout . - noun A sportsman whose game is poults or young grouse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, pouts.
- noun (Zoöl.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who habitually
pouts ; asourpuss - noun A
breed ofpigeon thatinflates itscrop
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression
- noun one of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out
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Examples
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But the fact of the rapidly increasing difficulty found in producing by ever such careful selection, any further extreme in some charge already carried very far (such as the tail of the "fan-tailed pigeon" or the crop of the "pouter"), is certainly, so far as it goes, on the side of the {117} existence of definite limits to variability.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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Mean Mainstream Media - another pouter who won't take responsibility for their actions. rednekhank
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Loren is a great figure of Italian cinema, but she's more of a pouter than an actress.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Who Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World? Michael Giltz 2011
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Loren is a great figure of Italian cinema, but she's more of a pouter than an actress.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Who Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World? Michael Giltz 2011
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Loren is a great figure of Italian cinema, but she's more of a pouter than an actress.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Who Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World? Michael Giltz 2011
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Loren is a great figure of Italian cinema, but she's more of a pouter than an actress.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Who Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World? Michael Giltz 2011
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Ai m sneekin onda com pouter at werk, ai will emayo this ebening about yore trip to TTI.
“I understand now!” Kit cried joyfully - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Hey, there he is again, America's most popular pouter, brought to you by the media industrial complex that built him up, tore him down, and is rebuilding what they tore down.
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Nor a whiner or pouter like so many who seem to post.
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She was a pouter, a thrower of chess pieces, a disengager.
Letters Home 2007
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