Poutish
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Pouty (all senses).
"[…] those [women] that are sheepish, can very difficultly preserve themselves from being weather-born; and those that are waspish, are, as Solomon saith, a continual dropping; and the poutish are like a charnel-house, where sorrowful and glum silence make a solemn mourning:"
Synonyms
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More examples"[…] those [women] that are sheepish, can very difficultly preserve themselves from being weather-born; and those that are waspish, are, as Solomon saith, a continual dropping; and the poutish are like a charnel-house, where sorrowful and glum silence make a solemn mourning:"
Etymology
From pout + -ish.
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