pout

pout

See also: Pout and pouť

English

A woman pouting

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /paʊt/

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

Etymology 1

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”)).

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• moue

Derived terms

• apout
• pouting (noun)

Translations

push out one’s lips

Bulgarian: цупя се (cupja se) Catalan: fer el bot, fer el petarrell Chinese: Mandarin: 撅嘴 (juēzuǐ) Czech: špulit impf ústa Dutch: pruilen (nl), de lippen tuiten (nl) Esperanto: paŭti Finnish: mutristaa French: bouder (fr), faire la moue (fr) German: schürzen (de) Hungarian: biggyeszt Icelandic: setja á sig stút, setja upp fýlusvip, setja stút á munninn Irish: puisín a chur ort féin Italian: fare il broncio Manchu: ᠮᠣᠩᠨᡳᡠᡵᠣᠮᠪᡳ (mongniurombi) Maori: tupere, whakamito, tāperu, hō, hō ngā ngutu, kō, tupere, weru Portuguese: fazer beiço Russian: надува́ть гу́бы impf (naduvátʹ gúby), наду́ть гу́бы pf (nadútʹ gúby), ду́ться (ru) impf (dútʹsja), наду́ться (ru) pf (nadútʹsja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пућити усне Roman: pućiti usne Slovak: mať odutú papuľu, odúvať sa Spanish: hacer puchero Swedish: pluta (sv) Vietnamese: chu môi, chu mỏ, dẩu môi, dẩu mỏ Walloon: fé s' lepe (wa), fé l' grosse lepe (wa), fé l' lepe

sulk, (pretend to) be ill-tempered

Bulgarian: муся се (musja se) Chinese: Mandarin: 撅嘴 (juēzuǐ), 噘 (zh) (juē) Danish: surmule Dutch: pruilen (nl) Finnish: mököttää (fi) French: bouder (fr) German: schmollen (de), einen Schmollmund machen Hungarian: duzzog (hu), durcáskodik, fanyalog (hu) Icelandic: setja á sig stút, setja upp fýlusvip, setja stút á munninn Italian: mettere il broncio Japanese: 拗ねる (ja) (すねる, suneru), やさぐれる (ja) (yasagureru) Manchu: ᠮᠣᠩᠨᡳᡠᡵᠣᠮᠪᡳ (mongniurombi) Polish: boczyć się impf Portuguese: amuar (pt) Russian: ду́ться (ru) impf (dútʹsja), ку́кситься (ru) impf (kúksitʹsja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: дурити се Roman: duriti se (sh) Spanish: hacer un mohín, ponerse de morros

Noun

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.

Translations

facial expression

Bulgarian: цупене (bg) n (cupene) Catalan: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 撅嘴 (juēzuǐ) Dutch: pruilmondje (nl) n, tuit (nl) m or f, tuitmondje n Finnish: mutristus, nyrpistys French: moue (fr) f Galician: bico (gl) m, bozo m German: Schmollmund (de) m Hungarian: fintor (hu) Icelandic: stútur m, fýlustútur m, fýlusvipur m Italian: broncio (it) m Japanese: 膨れっ面 (ふくれっつら, fukurettsura) Maori: tāperu, hō Plautdietsch: Schlepkje f Portuguese: beiço (pt) m Russian: наду́тые гу́бы f pl (nadútyje gúby), недово́льная грима́са f (nedovólʹnaja grimása) Spanish: mohín m

fit

Bulgarian: мусене (bg) n (musene) Finnish: murjotus (fi), mökötys (fi)

See also

• pucker

Etymology 2

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”).

Noun

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).

Derived terms

• eelpout, eel-pout
• hornpout

See also

• pout on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

pout (plural pouts)

1. Alternative form of poult

Verb

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

1. (Scotland) To shoot poults.

Anagrams

• puto, tupo, up to