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Pout

//pʌʊt// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    One's facial expression when pouting.

    "2008, Vladimir Nabokov, Natasha, written 1924, translated by Dmitri Nabokov With a pout, Natasha counted the drops, and her eyelashes kept time."

  2. 2
    Any of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae). rare
  3. 3
    Alternative form of poult. alt-of, alternative
  4. 4
    catfish common in eastern United States wordnet
  5. 5
    A fit of sulking or sullenness.
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  1. 6
    marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas wordnet
  2. 7
    a disdainful grimace wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To push out one's lips. intransitive
  2. 2
    To shoot poults. Scotland
  3. 3
    make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip wordnet
  4. 4
    To thrust itself outward; to be prominent. intransitive
  5. 5
    be in a huff and display one's displeasure wordnet
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  1. 6
    To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk. intransitive
  2. 7
    To say while pouting. transitive

    ""Don't you love me any more?" she pouted."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English pouten, probably from Scandinavian (compare Norwegian pute (“pillow, cushion”), dial. Swedish puta (“to be puffed out”), Danish pude (“pillow, cushion”)), from Proto-Germanic *pūto (“swollen”) (compare English eelpout, Dutch puit, Low German puddig (“inflated”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”) (compare Sanskrit बुद्बुद (budbuda, “bubble”)).

Etymology 2

From Middle English pouten, probably from Scandinavian (compare Norwegian pute (“pillow, cushion”), dial. Swedish puta (“to be puffed out”), Danish pude (“pillow, cushion”)), from Proto-Germanic *pūto (“swollen”) (compare English eelpout, Dutch puit, Low German puddig (“inflated”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”) (compare Sanskrit बुद्बुद (budbuda, “bubble”)).

Etymology 3

From Middle English *poute, from Old English *pūte as in ǣlepūta, ǣlepūte (“eelpout”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to swell”). Related to pout (“to push one's lip out”).

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