pout

Meanings

Verb

• To push out one's lips.
• To thrust itself outward; to be prominent.
• To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
• To say while pouting.
• To shoot poults.

Noun

• One's facial expression when pouting.
• A fit of sulking or sullenness.
• Shortened name of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).
• Alternative of poult

Related

Similar words

• moue

Origin

• 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 ("bubble")).
• From Middle English *poute, from Old English *pūte as in ǣlepūta, ǣlepūte, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bew-. Related to English pout.