[syn: pout, mop, mow]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pout \Pout\ (p[=oo]t), n. [F. poulet. See Poult.]
The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. --Carew.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pout \Pout\ (p[=oo]t), v. i.
To shoot pouts. [Scot.]
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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.
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Thou poutest upon thy fortune and thy love. --Shak.
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2. To protrude. "Pouting lips." --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pout \Pout\, n.
A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. "Jack's
in the pouts." --J. & H. Smith.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pout \Pout\, n. [Cf. Eelpout.] (Zool.)
The European whiting pout or bib.
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Eel pout. (Zool.) See Eelpout.
Horn pout, or Horned pout. (Zool.) See Bullhead
(b) .
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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2. (Zool.) An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the
cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.
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3. A bibcock.
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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]
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