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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

POUT, n. A fish of the genus Gadus, about an inch in length; the whiting pout.
1. A bird.
2. A fit of sullenness. [Colloquial.]
POUT, v.i.
1. To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness, contempt or displeasure; hence, to look sullen.
2. To shoot out; to be prominent; as pouting lips.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a disdainful grimace [syn: pout, moue, wry face]
2: marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas [syn: eelpout, pout]
3: catfish common in eastern United States [syn: horned pout, hornpout, pout, Ameiurus Melas] v
1: be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted" [syn: sulk, pout, brood]
2: make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted" [syn: pout, mop, mow]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: Middle English Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. a. to show displeasure by thrusting out the lips or wearing a sullen expression b. sulk 2. protrude transitive verb to cause to protrude <pouted her lips> II. noun Date: 1591 1. a protrusion of the lips expressive of displeasure 2. plural a fit of pique III. noun (plural pout or pouts) Etymology: probably from Middle English *poute, a fish with a large head, from Old English -p?te; akin to Middle English pouten to pout Date: 1591 any of several large-headed fishes (as a bullhead or eelpout)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v. & n. --v. 1 intr. a push the lips forward as an expression of displeasure or sulking. b (of the lips) be pushed forward. 2 tr. push (the lips) forward in pouting. --n. 1 such an action or expression. 2 (the pouts) a fit of sulking. Derivatives: pouter n. poutingly adv. pouty adj. Etymology: ME, perh. f. OE putian (unrecorded) be inflated: cf. POUT(2) 2. n. 1 = BIB(1) 3. 2 = EELPOUT. Etymology: OE -puta in æleputa eelpout, f. WG

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pout Pout, n. A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. ``Jack's in the pouts.'' --J. & H. Smith.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pout Pout, n. [Cf. Eelpout.] (Zo["o]l.) The European whiting pout or bib. Eel pout. (Zo["o]l.) See Eelpout. Horn pout, or Horned pout. (Zo["o]l.) See Bullhead (b) .

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pout Pout (p[=oo]t), n. [F. poulet. See Poult.] The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. --Carew.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pout Pout (p[=oo]t), v. i. To shoot pouts. [Scot.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pout Pout (pout), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pouting.] [OE. pouten, of uncertain origin; cf. Prov. pot lip, Prov. F. potte, faire la potte to pout, W. pwdu to pout, be sullen, poten, potten, a paunch, belly.] 1. To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen. Thou poutest upon thy fortune and thy love. --Shak. 2. To protrude. ``Pouting lips.'' --Dryden.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bib Bib, n. [From Bib, v., because the bib receives the drink that the child slavers from the mouth.] 1. A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes. 2. (Zo["o]l.) An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout. 3. A bibcock.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pouts, pouting, pouted) If someone pouts, they stick out their lips, usually in order to show that they are annoyed or to make themselves sexually attractive. He whined and pouted when he did not get what he wanted. ...gorgeous pouting models. VERB: V, V-ing • Pout is also a noun. She shot me a reproachful pout. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Whiting-pout, bib-pout (Morrhua lusca). 2. Catfish, horn-pout, horned-pout, bull-head (Pimelodus cattus). 3. Fit of sullenness, sulk. II. v. n. Look sullen (by protruding the lips), look black, show ill-temper.

Moby Thesaurus

bag, balloon, beetle, belly, belly out, bilge, billow, bouge, brood, bug, bulge, dilate, distend, frown, gloom, glower, goggle, grimace, grump, jut, knit the brow, long face, look black, look sullen, lour, lower, make a face, make a lip, make a moue, make a mouth, mop, mop and mow, mope, moue, mouth, mow, mug, overhang, pet, poke, pooch, pop, pouch, project, protrude, pull a face, rictus, round out, scowl, snarl, stand out, stick out, sulk, swell, swell out, wry face, wry mouth