8 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pout \Pout\ (p[=oo]t), n. [F. poulet. See {Poult}.] The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. --Carew. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pout \Pout\ (p[=oo]t), v. i. To shoot pouts. [Scot.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pout \Pout\, n. A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. "Jack's in the pouts." --J. & H. Smith. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pout \Pout\, n. [Cf. {Eelpout}.] (Zool.) The European whiting pout or bib. [1913 Webster] {Eel pout}. (Zool.) See {Eelpout}. {Horn pout}, or {Horned pout}. (Zool.) See {Bullhead} (b) . [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) An arctic fish ({Gadus luscus}), allied to the cod; -- called also {pout} and {whiting pout}. [1913 Webster] 3. A bibcock. [1913 Webster] Bib From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: pout n 1: a disdainful pouting grimace [syn: {moue}, {wry face}] 2: marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas [syn: {eelpout}] 3: catfish common in eastern United States [syn: {horned pout}, {hornpout}, {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}, {brood}] 2: make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted" [syn: {mop}, {mow}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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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