Definitions for pout
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pout, moue, wry facenoun

   a disdainful grimace

2. eelpout, poutnoun

   marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas

3. horned pout, hornpout, pout, Ameiurus Melasverb

   catfish common in eastern United States

4. sulk, pout, broodverb

   be in a huff and display one's displeasure

   "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted"

5. pout, mop, mowverb

   make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

   "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. poutverb

   To shoot poults.

2. Etymology: pouten, probably from Scandinavian (compare pute 'pillow, cushion', dial. puta 'to be puffed out', pude 'pillow, cushion'), from pūto 'swollen' (compare eelpout, East Frisian püt 'bag, swelling', puit (puut) 'frog', Low German puddig 'inflated'), from bu- 'to swell' (compare Sanskrit 'bubble').

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Poutnoun

   1. A kind of fish; a cod-fish.2. A kind of bird.

   Of wild birds, Cornwall hath quail, wood-dove, heath-cock and pout. Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall.

2. To Poutverb

   Etymology: bouter, Fr.

   1. To look sullen by thrusting out the lips.

   Like a misbehav’d and sullen wench,
   Thou pout’st upon thy fortune and thy love. William Shakespeare.

   He had not din’d;
   The veins unfill’d, our blood is cold; and then
   We pout upon the morning, are unapt
   To give or to forgive. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   I would advise my gentle readers, as they consult the good of their faces, to forbear frowning upon loyalists, and pouting at the government. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 8.

   The nurse remained pouting, nor would she touch a bit during the whole dinner. Scriblerus Club .

   2. To gape; to hang prominent.

   The ends of the wound must come over one another, with a compress to press the lips equally down, which would otherwise become crude, and pout out with great lips. Richard Wiseman.

   Satyrus was made up betwixt man and goat, with a human head, hooked nose and pouting lips. Dryden.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pout

   Pout refers to pushing one's lips or one's bottom lip forward as an expression of petulant annoyance or in order to make oneself look sexually attractive. It can also mean to sulk or to show dissatisfaction or displeasure over something.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Poutnoun

   the young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl

2. Poutverb

   to shoot pouts

3. Poutverb

   to thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen

4. Poutverb

   to protrude

5. Poutnoun

   a sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness

6. Poutnoun

   the European whiting pout or bib

7. Etymology: [OE. pouten, of uncertain origin; cf. Prov. pot lip, Prov. F. potte, faire la potte to pout, W. pwdu to pout, be sullen, poten, potten, a paunch, belly.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pout

   powt, v.i. to push out the lips, in contempt or displeasure: to look sulky: to push out or be prominent.—n. a fit of sulkiness or ill-humour.—ns. Pout′er, one who pouts: a variety of pigeon, having its breast inflated; Pout′ing, childish sullenness.—adv. Pout′ingly, in a pouting or sullen manner. [Ety. dub.; cf. prov. Fr. pot, pout, lip, Fr. bouder, to pout; W. pwdu, pout.]

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1. POUT

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pout in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pout in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of pout in a Sentence

1. Duke Ellington:

   I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

2. Daniel Pout:

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pout
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pout
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=pout
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pout
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=pout