pout

See also: Pout and pouť

English

A child pouting

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /paʊt/

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

Etymology 1

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 (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

Derived terms

• apout
• pouting (noun)
• poutish
• pouty

Translations

push out one’s lips

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

  Mandarin: 撅嘴 (juēzuǐ)

• Czech: špulit impf ústa
• Dutch: pruilen (nl), de lippen tuiten (nl)
• Esperanto: paŭti
• Finnish: mutristaa
• French: bouder (fr), faire la moue (fr)
• German: schürzen (de)
• Hungarian: biggyeszt (hu)
• Icelandic: setja á sig stút, setja upp fýlusvip, setja stút á munninn
• Irish: puisín a chur ort féin
• Italian: fare il broncio
• Manchu: ᠮᠣᠩᠨᡳᡠᡵᠣᠮᠪᡳ (mongniurombi)
• 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
• Swedish: pluta (sv)
• 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

• Bulgarian: муся се (musja se)
• 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
• Hungarian: duzzog (hu), durcáskodik (hu), fanyalog (hu)
• Icelandic: setja á sig stút, setja upp fýlusvip, setja stút á munninn
• Italian: mettere il broncio
• Japanese: 拗ねる (ja) (すねる, suneru), やさぐれる (ja) (yasagureru)
• Manchu: ᠮᠣᠩᠨᡳᡠᡵᠣᠮᠪᡳ (mongniurombi)
• Polish: boczyć się impf
• 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

• trout pout
• turkey pout

 

Translations

facial expression

• Bulgarian: цупене (bg) n (cupene)
• Catalan: petarrell (ca) m, repetell m
• 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: fintor (hu)
• 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
• Plautdietsch: Schlepkje f
• Portuguese: beiço (pt) m
• Russian: наду́тые гу́бы f pl (nadútyje gúby), недово́льная грима́са f (nedovólʹnaja grimása)
• Spanish: mohín (es) m
• Welsh: cwpsau c pl

fit

• Bulgarian: мусене (bg) n (musene)
• Finnish: murjotus (fi), mökötys (fi)

See also

• pucker

Etymology 2

From Middle English *poute, from Old English *pūte as in ǣlepūta, ǣlepūte (“eelpout”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to swell”). Related to pout (“to push one's lip out”).

Noun

pout (plural pouts)

1. (rare) Any 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
• horned pout
• hornpout
• silvery pout

 

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

• puto, tupo, up to

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpou̯t]

Noun

pout n

1. genitive plural of pouto