pout1
[pout]
- to thrust out the lips, especially in displeasure or sullenness.
- to look or be sullen.
- to swell out or protrude, as lips.
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- to protrude (the lips).
- to utter with a pout.
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- the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- a fit of sullenness: to be in a pout.
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Origin of pout1
1275–1325; Middle English pouten; cognate with Swedish (dial.) puta to be inflated
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Examples from the Web for pouted
Contemporary Examples
Democrats split over moves to weaken Wall Street reforms, and Republicans pouted over lost leverage.
“Some bit their lips, some pouted, others cried,” hiding such emotions beneath their round, broad-brimmed hats.
Historical Examples
Hyacinthe pouted by way of expressing his contempt of all fruitfulness.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
Rose pouted as if her womanly character had been compromised.
He must have expected more signs of means than he found, for he pouted slightly.
FruitfulnessEmile Zola
Kate pretended to be angry at the rebuff, and pouted her lips, but her eyes were beaming.
The ManxmanHall Caine
He shrugged and pouted and had fresh recourse to his pomander.
The Strolling SaintRaphael Sabatini
pout1
- 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
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- (sometimes the pouts) a fit of sullenness
- the act or state of pouting
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Word Origin
C14: of uncertain origin; compare Swedish dialect puta inflated, Danish pude pillow
pout2
- 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
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Word Origin
Old English -pūte as in ǣlepūte eelpout; related to Dutch puit frog
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Word Origin and History for pouted
pout
v.
early 14c., of uncertain origin, perhaps from Scandinavian (cf. Swedish dialectal puta "to be puffed out"), or Frisian (cf. East Frisian püt "bag, swelling," Low German puddig "swollen"); related via notion of "inflation" to Old English ælepute "fish with inflated parts," and Middle Dutch puyt, Flemish puut "frog," from hypothetical PIE imitative root *beu- suggesting "swelling" (see bull (n.2)). Related: Pouted; pouting. As a noun from 1590s.
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