pout1
/paʊt
/verb [no object]
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 (as adjective pouting) pouting actresses [with object]: he shrugged and pouted his lips...
- Joe, not quite understanding the message, pouts.
- It's a sad day when a politician loses his mind and pouts and cries like a spoiled little eight year old brat because he didn't get it the way he wanted.
- I introduce myself to the lady now seated on the other side of my computer, who plonks herself down on the table next to me and pouts.
Synonyms
look petulant, pull a face, look sulky, purse one's lips, make a moue, turn the corners of one's mouth down;
scowl, glower, sulk
rare mop and mow
noun
A pouting expression: his lower lip protruded in a sulky pout...
- He whines pitifully, a pout forming his expression.
- Once she let him go, her expression faded into a pout.
- It was accompanied by a photograph of him walking across the pitch with a serious expression and a pout that made him look like Donald Duck.
Synonyms
petulant expression, sulky expression, moue, face, scowl, glower
Derivatives
poutingly
- The young woman stared poutingly at him and the door.
- James looked poutingly at Ron through the rearview mirror and Ron shrugged, looking equally upset.
- Having regained her composure, she poutingly asked why I had not said that in the first place.
pouty
- I have politely declined invitations to parties, and with pouty lips and a grumpy expression, I shall be retiring to my bedchamber at a sensible hour.
- He had seated himself in a chair as far away from mine as he could get, with a sullen, pouty expression on his face.
- Look at those soft, innocent, inviting eyes, those pouty pillowy lips.
Origin
Middle English (as a verb): perhaps from the base of Swedish dialect puta 'be inflated'. Compare with pout2.
Rhymes
pout2
/paʊt/noun
1 (also pouting) Another term for bib1 (sense 2).
2 North American term for eelpout.It also attracts additional dogfish, flounders, rockling, pout and school bass and makes for a busy session....
- A small inshore member of the cod family, the pouting is one of the most common fish around the British coast and can make up a large percentage of angler catches.
- There is nothing worse than a pouting that's been asleep all day in a plastic bag, or a mackerel that's been slipped down someone's gumboot.
Origin
Old English pūta (only in ǣlepūta 'eelpout'); related to Dutch puit 'frog, chub', puitaal 'eelpout', and perhaps to pout1.