Definitions for pouter

pouter pout·er

Spelling: [pou-ter]
IPA: /ˈpaʊ tər/

Pouter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in pouter (eoprtu).

Definitions for pouter

noun

  1. a person who pouts.
  2. one of a breed of long-legged domestic pigeons, characterized by the habit of puffing out the distensible crop.

Origin of pouter

First recorded in 1715-25; pout1 + -er1

Examples for pouter

Those old fellows puffed up like pouter pigeons, and giggled and primped like a lot of school girls!

Then we go on to the absurd idea which came over womankind that it was most becoming to look like a pouter pigeon.

He is so conscious of his bigness, and makes chests at you like a pouter pigeon.

To give a simple illustration: the fantail and pouter pigeons are both descended from the rock pigeon.

In the pouter, although the breast-bone has been shortened by 18½ per cent.

Sheriff Lawley had on his stiffest professional air and Si Hardscrabble's chest was puffed out like a pouter pidgeon.

Persis herself was like a pouter pigeon strutting and preening her high breast.

Human evolution is not so simple or so conspicuous a thing as the evolution of the pouter pigeon.

Let us recognize it as an exquisite creation of art, not of nature, as wonderful as the pouter pigeon or the saffron rose.

They would fill their craws so full that they looked like pouter pigeons.

Word Value for pouter
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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