pout

See also: Pout and pouť

English

A woman pouting

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʊt/
• IPA^(key): /pʌʊt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English pouten, probably from Scandinavian (compare Norwegian pute (“pillow, cushion”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Swedish dial. puta (“to be puffed out”), Danish pude (“pillow, cushion”)), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *pūto (“swollen”) (compare English eelpout, Dutch puit, Low German puddig (“inflated”)), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”) (compare Sanskrit बुद्बुद (budbuda, “bubble”)).

Verb

pout (third-person singular simple present pouts, present participle pouting, simple past and past participle pouted)

1. (intransitive) To push out one's lips.
2. (intransitive) To thrust itself outward; to be prominent.
3. (intransitive) To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
4. (transitive) To say while pouting.

   "Don't you love me any more?" she pouted.

Synonyms

• moue

Translations

push out one’s lips

• Bulgarian: цупя се (cupja se)
• Catalan: fer el bot, fer el petarrell
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撅嘴 (juēzuǐ)

• Dutch: pruilen (nl), de lippen tuiten (nl)
• Esperanto: paŭti
• Finnish: mutristaa
• French: bouder (fr), faire la moue (fr)
• German: schürzen (de)
• Icelandic: setja á sig stút, setja upp fýlusvip, setja stút á munninn
• Irish: puisín a chur ort féin
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: fare il broncio
• Manchu: ᠮᠣᠩᠨᡳᡠᡵᠣᠮᠪᡳ (mongniorombi)
• Maori: tupere, whakamito, tāperu, hō, hō ngā ngutu, kō, tupere, weru
• Portuguese: fazer beiço
• Russian: надува́ть гу́бы impf (naduvátʹ gúby), наду́ть гу́бы pf (nadútʹ gúby), ду́ться (ru) impf (dútʹsja), наду́ться (ru) pf (nadútʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пућити усне

  Roman: pućiti usne

• Slovak: mať odutú papuľu, odúvať sa
• Spanish: hacer puchero
• Vietnamese: chu môi, chu mỏ, dẩu môi, dẩu mỏ
• Walloon: fé s' lepe (wa), fé l' grosse lepe (wa), fé l' lepe

sulk, (pretend to) be ill-tempered

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撅嘴 (juēzuǐ), 噘 (zh) (juē)

• Danish: surmule
• Dutch: pruilen (nl)
• Finnish: mököttää (fi)
• French: bouder (fr)
• German: schmollen (de), einen Schmollmund machen
• Icelandic: setja á sig stút, setja upp fýlusvip, setja stút á munninn
• Italian: mettere il broncio
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 拗ねる (すねる, suneru), やさぐれる (ja) (yasagureru)
• Manchu: ᠮᠣᠩᠨᡳᡠᡵᠣᠮᠪᡳ (mongniorombi)
• Portuguese: amuar (pt)
• Russian: ду́ться (ru) impf (dútʹsja), ку́кситься (ru) impf (kúksitʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дурити се

  Roman: duriti se (sh)

• Spanish: hacer un mohín, ponerse de morros

Noun

pout (plural pouts)

1. One's facial expression when pouting.
   • 2008, Vladimir Nabokov, Natasha, written 1924, translated by Dmitri Nabokov

     With a pout, Natasha counted the drops, and her eyelashes kept time.

2. A fit of sulking or sullenness.

Derived terms

• pouting (n)

Translations

facial expression

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撅嘴 (juēzuǐ)

• Dutch: pruilmondje (nl) n, tuit (nl) m or f, tuitmondje n
• Finnish: mutristus, nyrpistys
• French: moue (fr) f
• Galician: bico (gl) m, bozo m
• German: Schmollmund (de) m
• Hungarian: elhúz (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: stútur m, fýlustútur m, fýlusvipur m
• Italian: broncio (it) m
• Japanese: 膨れっ面 (ふくれっつら, fukurettsura)
• Maori: tāperu, hō
• Portuguese: beiço (pt) m
• Russian: наду́тые гу́бы f pl (nadútyje gúby), недово́льная грима́са f (nedovólʹnaja grimása)
• Spanish: mohín m

fit

• Finnish: murjotus (fi), mökötys (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• pucker

Etymology 2

From Middle English *poute, from Old English *pūte as in ǣleputa, ǣlepūte (“eelpout”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to swell”).

Noun

pout (plural pouts)

1. (rare) Shortened name of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).

Derived terms

• eelpout, eel-pout
• hornpout

See also

• pout on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

Noun

pout (plural pouts)

1. Alternative form of poult

Verb

pout (third-person singular simple present pouts, present participle pouting, simple past and past participle pouted)

1. (Scotland) To shoot poults.

Anagrams

• tupo, up to