Definitions for pout

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Spelling: [pout]

IPA: /paʊt/

Pout is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in pout (optu).

Definitions for pout

noun

1. the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
2. a fit of sullenness:
3. horned pout.
4. ocean pout.
5. a northern, marine food fish, Trisopterus luscus.

verb (used with object)

1. to protrude (the lips).
2. to utter with a pout.

verb (used without object)

1. to thrust out the lips, especially in displeasure or sullenness.
2. to look or be sullen.
3. to swell out or protrude, as lips.

Origin of pout

1275-1325; Middle English pouten; cognate with Swedish (dial.) puta to be inflated

Examples for pout

But he did not heed it, and the pout vanished, and tears rushed to her eyes.

She pretended to pout, fidgeted in his arm, arched her neck.

He flushes up too, and his thin-lipped, narrow mouth takes on a pout.

But pout as she might, she could not prevail with James, whose vanity had been scratched.

As the Independent asked, “Can you really stand to see that pout and those shades one more time?”

Dotty did not understand the remark, but thought it safe to pout.

His forehead was all puckered, and his red mouth set in a pout.

In answer to this Mary pouted, but her husband did not see the pout.

"I don't think I will dance," she said, pretending to pout a bit.

Every interaction with her was fraught lest she would throw a sulk or sink into a pout.