poutish

English

Etymology

pout +‎ -ish

Adjective

poutish (comparative more poutish, superlative most poutish)

1. Pouty (all senses).
   • 1671, Caleb Trenchfield, “Of the choice of a Wife”, in A Cap of Grey Hairs for a Green Head‎^[1], London: Henry Eversden, page 117:

     […] those [women] that are sheepish, can very difficultly preserve themselves from being weather-born; and those that are waspish, are, as Solomon saith, a continual dropping; and the poutish are like a charnel-house, where sorrowful and glum silence make a solemn mourning:

   • 1899, Frank Kinsella, chapter 4, in The Degeneration of Dorothy‎^[2], New York: G.W. Dillingham, page 106:

     She was the most consummate mistress of the value of a shading of emphasis, an uplifted eyebrow, a tiny, poutish moue, or a dainty shrug of the shoulders, when used in conjunction with an unended sentence, in declaring and pointing an unspoken opinion.

   • 1913, Djuna Barnes, “‘Twingeless Twitchell’ and His Tantalizing Tweezers” in Alyce Barry (ed.) New York, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1989, p. 22,^[3]

     “How slow the city is in summer,” said Ikrima in that pretty, poutish way which always appeals to the biggest sort of men.

   • 2008, K. G. Schneider, “The Outlaw Bride”, in Dave Eggers, editor, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009‎^[4], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 355:

     a poutish middle-class ire over my second-class status as a first-class taxpayer