单词 | pout |
释义 | poutn.1 Any of various fishes, esp.: (a) a fish of the genus Trisopterus or related genera of the family Gadidae; esp. the bib or pouting, T. luscus; (b) = eel-pout n.bull, horn-, mud, ocean pout: see the first element.Recorded earliest in eel-pout n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > genus Gadus > gadus luscus (pout) poutOE pouting1591 bib1674 whiting pout1686 bull-pout1823 pouter1860 stink-alive1863 miller's thumb1880 the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] projecture1563 jutting1565 project1596 juttying1611 prominence1611 excursiona1626 extancy1644 outjetty1650 projection1664 projecting1726 jetting1754 saliency1834 salience1849 protrusion1853 prominency1871 pout1880–4 out-thrust1955 OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 228 Capito, myne uel ælepute. 1577 Arte of Angling sig. Ei Rather giue me the Carpe, than the poute. 1591 ‘A. Foulweather’ Wonderfull Astrol. Prognostication 17 If there bee few or none [sc. eels] taken, and plentie of poutes to bee had [with pun on pout n.2]. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Powt, a Fish otherwise call'd a Sea-Lamprey. 1707 J. Williams Redeemed Captive (1758) 18 There seven of us supped on the Fish, called Bull-head or Pout, and did not eat it up, the Fish was so large. 1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. 171 There is also [in Lake Ontario] a sort called the Cat-head or Pout, which are in general very large, some of them weighing eight or ten pounds. 1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 252 We took pouts, cat-fish, cat-heads, of six pounds weight. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 287 Bib, pout,..brassie, in Scotland. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 8 Aug. 11/4 South Coast watering-places have on favourable days..yielded good mixed baskets of plaice, pout, dab, bream, conger, and dogs. 1996 New Scientist 6 Jan. 6/1 The antifreeze gene is responsible for production of a protein that lowers the freezing point of the [ocean] pout's blood so that it can tolerate the northern winter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). poutn.2 1. A protrusion of the lips, esp. as an expression of petulance or sulkiness, or to make oneself sexually attractive; a pouting expression or mood.In quots. 1591 and 1631, perhaps punning on pout n.1 ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > expression of ill humour > [noun] > pouting > a pout pout1591 moue1849 puss1899 1591 ‘A. Foulweather’ Wonderfull Astrol. Prognostication 17 Plentie of poutes to bee had in all places, especiallie in those coastes and Countries where weomen haue not their owne willes. 1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xv. §2. 255 A Bessy Babe, that must be dandled, and in every thing humoured else she feeds all upon Poutes. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical vi. 68 Tho' the Coquets were despised by the generality of Ladies, yet they immitate them to a Hairs Breadth in their whole Conduct. They learn of them the Winning Air, the Bewitching Glance, the Amorous Smirk, and the Sullen Pout. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 117 The parting of the double ruby-pout of his lips seem'd to exhale an air sweeter and purer than what it drew in. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxv. 372 Look at that hanging lower lip! what a huge sulk and pout is there! 1880 R. Browning Pan & Luna in Dramatic Idyls 45 That pure undraped Pout of the sister paps. 1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends 23 ‘Then you don't think it wise?’ mutters the girl, with a pout. 1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 46 Her good, round old face had gone a little sour; an innumerable pout clung all over it. 1941 Time 12 May 55/1 Her pretty posturing, pouts, stunned, exotic stares are meaningless when she tries to do them once over lightly. 1992 J. Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! xxxviii. 362 Pride of place in the collection was given to a framed picture of Bette Davis who'd mugged a sexy pout for the camera. 2. in the pouts, in a (also the) pout: in a pouting or sulky mood. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adjective] > in an ill humour maltalenta1578 in a jeer1579 in suds1611 sullen-sick1614 in the pouts1615 out of sorts1621 cross1639 off the hooks1662 huff1714 sulkinga1777 as cross as a bear1838 sore-headed1844 sore-head1862 baity1921 1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe i. 45 The fat is in the fire, she is in the powt, all a mort. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. lvi. 221 Panurge somewhat vex'd Fryar Jhon [sic], and put him in the pouts. 1776 D. Garrick Let. 30 July in D. Garrick & G. Spencer Lett. (1960) 23 Mrs Garrick in the Pouts presents her respects with mine. 1795 A. Hughes Jemima I. 82 I could not be brought out of the pouts. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 6 Jack's in the pouts, and this it is, He thinks mine came to more than his. 1895 Catholic World July 541 You must learn, too, how to take these little maidens; they have their moods as well as we. ‘In the pouts’ with them is ‘a fit of the blues’ with their elders. 1958 S. Plath Jrnl. 8 Feb. (2000) 326 She in a pout, not speaking. 1997 E. White Farewell Symphony (1998) xi. 463 I felt rejected by the States. I was in a pout that America had let me go so easily. Compounds General attributive, as pout-mouthing, †pout puffing nouns. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > expression of ill humour > [noun] > pouting poutingc1556 pout-mouthing1605 bouderie1855 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 117 Baldwin le-Pettour..held his land in Suffolke, Per saltum, sufflum & pettum, sive bumbulum, for dauncing, pout-puffing, and dooing that before the King of England in Christmasse holy dayes, which the worde Pet signifieth in French. 1807 S. T. Coleridge Let. to H. Coleridge in Lett. (1895) 514 Your mad passions and frantic looks and pout-mouthing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). poutn.3 English regional (chiefly Kent). A small round stack of hay or straw; = pook n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stooking > stook or cock > stack or rick in field pike1565 pook1607 wind-cock1610 pout1686 wind-mow1811 peak1953 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. i. 15 Cattle fed in winter time at the same pout of hay... Cattle feeding at a hay-pout. c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Pout; as an hay-pout, a round stack of hay. Plot, a Kentish author, has it. 1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) A hay-powt. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 120 In the field hay is put up into smaller heaps, called cocks, and larger ones, called pouts; when carted it is made into a stack. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † poutn.4 Obsolete. The mount of the lens of a simple microscope, by means of which the lens is attached to a Lieberkühn. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope > parts of object plate1664 slider1703 pout1832 indicator1837 substage1853 focuser1861 nosepiece1867 searcher1870 Abbe condenser1879 eyeshade1885 1832 A. Pritchard Microsc. Cabinet 189 All globular bodies, having polished surfaces, reflect an image of the cups, and the pout, if there is one, appears as a dark spot in the centre. 1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 31 A great deal may be done with cups having single lenses inserted in them which they do not fit, by raising or lowering their pouts or settings by means of rings of thin metal, till the focus of the lens and of the cup fall on the same point. 1907 F. A. Parsons Let. to Editor (O.E.D. Archive) The term pout probably went out of use about 1845. I have made enquiry of all the leading Microscope makers in London, but not one has ever heard of the term.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018). † poutn.5 Coal Mining. Obsolete. rare. A kind of punch: see quot. 1849. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > other driving or beating tools driver1659 set1812 stone-breaker1827 pout1849 impactor1916 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 39 Pout, Punch, a tool used by the deputies in drawing timber out of a dangerous place. It has a shank about 8 feet long, with a spade handle, and a head, pointed and slightly curved towards the handle at one side, and like a hammer at the other. It is either used as a ram to knock the props down, or to draw them out after they have been knocked down. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018). poutv.1 1. a. intransitive. To thrust out or protrude the lips, esp. so as to express petulance or sulkiness, or in order to make oneself sexually attractive; to show displeasure; to sulk. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > expression of ill humour > express ill humour [verb (intransitive)] > pout pout?c1335 purt1746 ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 171 (MED) Now i pirtle, i pofte, i poute, I snurpe, i snobbe, i sneipe on snovte; Þroȝ kund i comble and kelde. a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 135 Be not gapynge nor ganynge, ne with þy mouth to powt. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Siv/2 To Poute, caperare. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 2 Shee pouts, that Ganymed by Ioue too skitop is hoysed. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. i. 52 The Veines vnfill'd, our blood is cold, and then We powt vpon the Morning. View more context for this quotation 1689 P. Belon Court Secret ii.63 He falls a crying..and plays a Thousand little Apish Tricks with it, pouting, and seeming very sullen. 1727 W. Pattison Poet. Wks. I. 9 If you knew I kiss'd a Lass at Town, How have I seen you pout, and fret, and frown? 1792 R. Bage Man as he Is II. xxxvi. 93 Even the gentle Emilia would sometimes demur, and sometimes pout. 1830 T. Flint Shoshonee Valley I. ii. 34 She teased him, vexed him, pouted, and flung at times, and threatened in Shoshonee. 1867 A. J. Evans St. Elmo xvii. 231 You certainly have as good a right as any other child of Adam, to fret and cry and pout over your girlish griefs. 1936 M. Mitchell Let. 1 June in Gone with the Wind Lett. (1986) 9 I wasn't sucking my thumb and pouting all this time. 1968 V. S. Pritchett Cab At Door vii. 129 We looked at the girls and the girls pouted and put out their tongues and giggled and their warm eyes winked at us. 1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger xxiv. 213 He pouted and puffed explosively into the air. b. intransitive. Esp. of a mouth or lips: to swell out, to protrude. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [verb (intransitive)] > lips poutc1484 pouch1647 blub1684 unpurse1838 moue1938 c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 158 If þe cause be of coler, bolnyng and extencion schewyth, þat is to sey, þei be powtyng owte, repleschyd with mater. 1665 J. Crowne Pandion & Amphigenia ii. 161 Her vertuous Nose..whence a rare quintessential distillation continually dropped, which lest it should be lost, her nether lip stood pouting out, to catch it. 1668 C. Sedley Mulberry-garden iv. i. 48 Her little breasts swelling and pouting Out, as if they came half way to be Kist. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. i. 9 His eyes half closed, and his lips pouting out to his turn'd-up nose, his chin curdled..leaving one at a loss to know, whether stupid drowsiness or intense contemplation had got most hold of him. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 92 A pair of vermillion lips, pouting, and swelling to the touch, as if a bee had freshly stung them. 1816 J. Wilson City of Plague i. iv. 121 Her lips would pout With a perpetual simper. 1869 Mrs. Heaton A. Dürer (1881) i. i. 37 The full childish lips pout out as if waiting to be kissed. 1902 J. Ashby-Sterry in Canad. Mag. July 269/2 Sleeves closely furled to exhibit the charm Of biceps that pouts in a snowy white arm. 1934 H. Roth Call it Sleep i. xiv. 110 He could feel his lips pouting despite himself, stretching out as if to loosen the tears. 1980 I. Murdoch Nuns & Soldiers iii. 180 Her mouth pouted a little reflectively, the lips had a gentle look. 2002 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 23 Oct. 16 They had blonde, shoulder-length hair, straight-ironed to within an inch of its life, amazing figures and lips that pouted like airbags. 2. a. transitive. To push out, to protrude (the lips or some other body part). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [verb (transitive)] > lips sever1398 sparec1400 prim1707 mimp1710 pout1748 lip1826 unpurse1838 mouth1960 ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Jii To powte, poussir.] 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xxv. 222 She pouted out her blubber-lips, as if to bellows up wind. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 121 Gulchenrouz..pouted out his vermillion little lips against the offer. 1798 F. Burney Jrnls. & Lett. (1973) IV. 232 She received me..pouting out her sweet ruby lips for me to kiss. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 151 Her lips are sever'd as to speak: His own are pouted to a kiss. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 144 In a starfish which has died with its stomach pouted out. 1881 A. Trollope Ayala's Angel III. lxxiv. 270 Ayala, who by this time was very intimate with her friend, pouted her lips, and said that if ‘Jonathan did not like her things as she chose to have them he might do the other thing’. 1987 Times 13 Nov. 24/7 In front of him, Mrs Edwina Currie..pouted her lips while chewing on a sucky sweet. b. transitive. To utter or say with a pout. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > expression of ill humour > express ill humour [verb (transitive)] > pout (the lips) > utter with a pout pout1854 1854 J. E. Cooke Virginia Comedians i. viii. 50 ‘I won't marry you!’ says Kate, ‘to be quarrelling all the time—’ ‘I quarrel!’ ‘Yes!’ pouts Kate, wiping her eyes. 1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends 131 Then she pouts, ‘You've had all my dances’. 1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xix. 219 ‘But I want you to like me the same way,’ pouted Davy. 1929 M. A. Gill Underworld Slang 14 Words that can be used in place of..‘said’, Pouted. 1985 TV Times 31 Aug. 6/2 Porn queen Lili pouted the now famous question: ‘Which one of you bitches is my mother?’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † poutv.2 English regional (Kent). Obsolete. transitive. = pook v.1 ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > make into stooks cock1392 shockc1440 stookc1575 cop1581 pook1587 recock1610 pout1617 stitch1669 1617 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1902) 25 25 Robert Terry, [presented] for profaning of the Sabbath Day by carrying wheat with his waggon, and also for binding barley and powting of podder upon the Sabbath. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). poutv.3 Scottish. rare. intransitive. To shoot at young game. ΚΠ 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) To Pout, to shoot at young partridges. 1907 N.E.D. Pout, to shoot at poults. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1OEn.21591n.31686n.41832n.51849v.1?c1335v.21617v.31825 |
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