pout

• (UK) IPA^(key): /paʊt/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /pʌʊt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt

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”)).

pout (third-person singular simple present pouts, present participle pouting, simple past and past participle pouted)

1. (intransitive) To push out one's lips.
2. (intransitive) To thrust itself outward; to be prominent.
3. (intransitive) To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
4. (transitive) To say while pouting.

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

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• apout
• pouting (noun)
• poutish
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pout (plural pouts)

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. A fit of sulking or sullenness.

• pucker

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”).

pout (plural pouts)

1. (rare) Any of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).

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pout (plural pouts)

1. Alternative form of poult

pout (third-person singular simple present pouts, present participle pouting, simple past and past participle pouted)

1. (Scotland) To shoot poults.

• puto, tupo, up to

• IPA^(key): [ˈpou̯t]

pout n

1. genitive plural of pouto