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Moue

//muː// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness.

    "[S]he looked at her face and made a moue in the glass; and never stopped for Laura’s answer to the questions which she had put."

  2. 2
    a disdainful grimace wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French moue, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Doublet of mow ("grimace").

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