c1556 J. Careles Let. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) III. 2117/1 Beware in any wise of swelling, powtyng, or lowryng, for that is a token of a cruell and vnlouyng hart.

a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrr^v/1 Never look coy, Lady; These are no gifts, to be put off with poutings.

1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 176 They that expect any jovial Day at such a Bridal-Day, are much deceived; There was nothing there but Pouting, Louring, and Cloudy Weather.

1737 E. Ward Nuptial Dialogues & Deb. (ed. 3) I. xvi. 146 A Woman's Poutings are her Beauty's Foils.

1759 D. Garrick Guardian ii. 41 She seem'd a little out of Humour,—And, upon my Faith, not the less beautiful for a little pouting.

1797 R. Tyler Algerine Captive I. vii. 70 What with the pouting of the small children, sent to school, not to learn, but to keep them out of ‘harm's way,’ and the gruff surly complaints of the larger ones, I was nearly distracted.

1819 T. Lewin Diary 4 Jan. (1909) I. ii. 145 Our dinner was made rather uncomfortable by Harriet's pouting on account of her being prevented from meeting her lover.

1872 C. Darwin Expression Emotions Man & Animals ix. 232 With young children sulkiness is shown by pouting, or, as it is sometimes called, ‘making a snout’.

1957 L. P. Hartley Hireling v. 35 Pressed forward, Lady Franklin's underlip had the effect of pouting: it trembled a little, and somehow spoilt the contour of her face, making her look discontented.

1987 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 Feb. 13/2 She varied affection and giving with unaccountable fits of pouting and broken promises.

2004 Daily Star (Nexis) 11 Oct. 11 Her posturings, poutings, lip-lickings and smoulderings make her sole motivation more blindingly clear.

1602 Withals' Dict. 275 A Crosse cloath (as they tarme it) a Powtingcloth, plagula.

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet D iv b Ile make him pull his powting crosscloath ouer his beetle browes for melancholie.

1790 T. Pennant Of London 113 It was successively the pouting-place of princes.

1997 D. Halliburton Fateful Disc. Worldly Things v. iii. 301 To the family, boudoir would reveal its root in the French bouder, to pout, so that this type of apartment would be a ‘pouting place’.

1775 H. L. Thrale Jrnl. 14 Oct. in French Jrnls. Mrs. Thrale & Dr. Johnson (1982) 116 Her Boudoir or pouting Room was hung with elegant Paper covered with Glass.

1860 J. Ruskin Let. 19 Nov. in Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 (1961) 1 113 By the way, does boudoir mean a ‘pouting-room’ because I always write English instead of French—if I know what the French word means.

2003 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 16 Feb. 1 d Boudoir. In French, it means the pouting room. It's a woman's private sanctum, her dressing room and repository of..daydreams and romance.

1824 Lancet 15 May 196/1 The first sympton which takes place is a pouting state of the lips of the urethra.

1591 J. Lyly Endimion iii. iii. sig. E3 For fish these, crab, carpe, lumpe, and powting.

1732 Coll. Voy. & Trav. V. iii. 146/1 Various sorts of excellent fish, large and small; as..bream, stomp-noses, flat noses, poutings, mackarel, [etc.].

1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 247 In which were caught a few poutings, conger, and wrasse.

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 13 A favourite Bait for Whiting, Pouting, Codfish, &c.

1927 Observer 24 July 26/2 South Coast sea anglers are doing well. Big congers and tope and bass, pollack, bream, pouting, mackerel, and flat-fish are being caught.

1990 Compl. Angler's Guide Spring 48/1 The use of fish for bait is considerable... Pouting, pollock or even whiting are successful.

1672 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 6 1, 2 and 3 July spent at the pouting and horse hire.

1679 J. Somerville Memorie Somervilles (1815) I. 241 The king being disposed to take his pleasure at the poutting in Calder and Carnwath Muires.

1714 J. Clerk Mem. (1895) 84 I constantly attended my Father at the pouting during the summer vacations in the Exchequer.

1723 Ld. Leven Let. 23 June in Chrons. Atholl & Tullibardine (1908) II. 355 This being the season for the Pouting, I intend to take a day or two sport about Black foord.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xiv. 310 Something that will keep the Captain wi' us amaist as well as the pouting.

1840 Contemp. of Burns 116 The ‘pouting season’, as it is called, was to her a period of more than ordinary enjoyment.

1851 R. P. Gillies Mem. I. 20 I think ye'll no be for facing the road this day, and ye'll no venture far at the pootin'!

1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 123/1 ‘Pouting nets’ were purchased for the better securing of muirfowl and partridges.

1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Ld. Hastynges sig. N.ii So Fortunes weathery cheare With powtyng lookes gan lower on my Syre.

1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes 50 Much mischiefe coms, by pranks of powting pride Which puffes and blowes, as it woulde mountaines moue.

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. i. 7 His pouting cheeks puff vp aboue his brow Like a swolne Toad touch't with the Spiders blow.

1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis i. ii. 5 He had no great powting lips, nor little eyes sunke into his head.

1691 J. Bancroft King Edward III ii. ii. 20 Why you little Cherubim, what a pair of pretty swelling powting bubbies hast thou got, they play in and out as they were at bo-peep.

1693 London Gaz. No. 2853/4 There is 113 pair of Pigeons,..as Carriers, Cropers,..Shakers, Pouting Horsemen, Barbaries,..to be sold.

1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. viii. 10 Yes, that you might, you pouting Slut.

1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 89 They seek the pouting Teat That plenteous streams.

1760 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 159 At a sale of powting-pigeons..one pair was sold for 16 guineas.

1816 B. Waterhouse Jrnl. Young Man Mass. (1911) xii. 463 The sight of her rosy cheeks..and pouting lips, wafted our imaginations..to our own dear country of pretty girls.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. x. 174 The corners of the pouting mouth went down piteously.

1904 J. Conrad Nostromo iii. iv. 322 Even Leonarda..came in a fright, pushing through, with her spoiled, pouting face of a favourite maid, leading the Viola girls by the hand.

1942 W. G. Hardy All Trumpets Sounded 133 The single garment she wore, wrapped closely about her, moulded the pouting breasts, set wide apart.

1991 Times 22 June 12/6 The United States is becoming a nation of belligerent shirkers, of pouting, mewling, finger-pointing cry-babies.