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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pout1 /paʊt/USA pronunciation v. - to push out the lips, esp. to show displeasure, unhappiness, or anger: [no object]She pouted when I told her she couldn't have a dog.[~ + object]She pouted her lips.
- to look, be, or act annoyed or unhappy:[no object]been pouting around all day.
- to say with a pout:[used with quotations]"I don't want to go to bed,'' she pouted.
n. [countable] - the act of pouting:She made a little pout when I told her the news.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pout1 (pout),USA pronunciation v.i. - to thrust out the lips, esp. in displeasure or sullenness.
- to look or be sullen.
- to swell out or protrude, as lips.
v.t. - to protrude (the lips).
- to utter with a pout.
n. - the act of pouting;
a protrusion of the lips. - a fit of sullenness:to be in a pout.
- 1275–1325; Middle English pouten; cognate with Swedish (dialect, dialectal) puta to be inflated
- 1, 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged brood, mope, glower, scowl, sulk.
pout2 (pout),USA pronunciation n., pl. (esp. collectively) pout, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) pouts. - FishSee horned pout.
- FishSee ocean pout.
- Fisha northern, marine food fish, Trisopterus luscus.
- bef. 1000; Old English -pūta, in ǣlepūta eelpout (not recorded in Middle English); cognate with Dutch puit frog
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