Pout
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
pout
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}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[1913 Webster]
Thou poutest upon thy fortune and thy love. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. To protrude. "Pouting lips." --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "pout":
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
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