pout
verb /paʊt/
/paʊt/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they pout | /paʊt/ /paʊt/ |
| he / she / it pouts | /paʊts/ /paʊts/ |
| past simple pouted | /ˈpaʊtɪd/ /ˈpaʊtɪd/ |
| past participle pouted | /ˈpaʊtɪd/ /ˈpaʊtɪd/ |
| -ing form pouting | /ˈpaʊtɪŋ/ /ˈpaʊtɪŋ/ |
- pout (something) | + speech if you pout, pout your lips or if your lips pout, you push out your lips, to show you are annoyed or to look sexually attractive
- He pouted angrily.
- Her lips pouted invitingly.
- models pouting their lips for the camera
Extra Examples- She pouted prettily at him.
- ‘But you knew how I felt about him,’ she pouted.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- slightly
- cutely
- playfully
- …
- at
Word OriginMiddle English (as a verb): perhaps from the base of Swedish dialect puta ‘be inflated’.