pout

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[ pout ]
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verb (used without object)
  1. to thrust out the lips, especially in displeasure or sullenness.

  2. to look or be sullen; sulk; mope.

  1. 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.

Origin of pout

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

Other words for pout

Other words from pout

  • poutful, adjective
  • pout·ing·ly, adverb
  • un·pout·ing, adjective
  • un·pout·ing·ly, adverb

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Other definitions for pout (2 of 2)

pout2
[ pout ]

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

Origin of pout

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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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British Dictionary definitions for pout (1 of 2)

pout1

/ (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

  1. (tr) to utter with a pout

noun
  1. (sometimes the pouts) a fit of sullenness

  2. the act or state of pouting

Origin of pout

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

Derived forms of pout

  • poutingly, adverb
  • pouty, adjective

British Dictionary definitions for pout (2 of 2)

pout2

/ (paʊt) /


nounplural pout or pouts
  1. short for horned pout, eelpout

  2. any of various gadoid food fishes, esp the bib (also called whiting pout)

  1. any of certain other stout-bodied fishes

Origin of pout

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

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