pouting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaʊtɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aʊtɪŋ

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English pout

English -ing

English pouting

From pout + -ing.

Verb

pouting

1. present participle and gerund of pout

Noun

pouting (plural poutings)

1. An expression or motion that pouts; a pout.
   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:

     The muscles about the mouth exhibited puckering movements and occasional pursings and poutings of the lips.

Etymology 2

See pout (Etymology 2)

Noun

pouting (plural poutings or pouting)

1. A fish in the cod family (Gadidae), Trisopterus luscus.

Synonyms

• (Trisopterus luscus): bib, bleg (Northeast England), pout whiting, pout

Translations

fish, Trisopterus luscus

• Asturian: fañeca (ast), xodión (ast)
• Catalan: mòllera fosca (ca) f, capellà (ca) m, capellà fosc (ca) m, faneca (ca) f, mòllera (ca) f
• Finnish: partaturska
• French: tacaud commun (fr) m
• Galician: faneca (gl) f
• German: Franzosendorsch m
• Irish: cáitín m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjeggtorsk m

• Portuguese: faneca (pt)
• Russian: францу́зская тресо́чка f (francúzskaja tresóčka), лю́ска f (ljúska)
• Spanish: faneca f
• Swedish: skäggtorsk c
• Welsh: còd llwyd m pl

See also

• Trisopterus luscus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia