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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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Pout \Pout\ (p[=oo]t), v. i.
     To shoot pouts. [Scot.]
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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.
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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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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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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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.
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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.
        [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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