pout
Meaning of pout
verb
- push one's lips or one's bottom lip forward as an expression of petulant annoyance or in order to make oneself look sexually attractive.
she lounged on the steps, pouting
he shrugged and pouted his lips
- a pouting expression.
his lower lip protruded in a sulky pout
Middle English (as a verb): perhaps from the base of Swedish dialect puta ‘be inflated’. Compare with pout2.
noun- another term for bib1 (sense 2 of the noun).
- another term for eelpout.
Old English pūta (only in ǣlepūta ‘eelpout’); related to Dutch puit ‘frog, chub’, puitaal ‘eelpout’, and perhaps to pout1.
Information about pout
- The plural form of pout is: pouts.
- Languages in which pout is used:
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Hyphenation of pout
pout
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- pout is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
pout synonyms
Meaning moue:
Meaning eelpout:
Meaning horned pout:
Meaning sulk:
Meaning mop:
Meaning frown in an angry or bad-tempered way:
Meaning have an angry or sullen look on one's face; scowl:
Meaning an expression shown on the face:
Anagrams of pout
Words that rhyme with pout
apout, snapout, sleepout, slipout, bullpout, eelpout, campout, hornpout, copout, dropout, aspout, bespout, downspout, drainspout, firespout, gutterspout, landspout, outspout, rainspout, sandspout, spout, upspout, waterspout
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