POUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pout mean? 

• POUT (noun)
  The noun POUT has 3 senses:

1. a disdainful grimace

2. marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas

3. catfish common in eastern United States

  Familiarity information: POUT used as a noun is uncommon.

• POUT (verb)
  The verb POUT has 2 senses:

1. be in a huff and display one's displeasure

2. make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

  Familiarity information: POUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disdainful grimace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

moue; pout; wry face

Hypernyms ("pout" is a kind of...):

face; grimace (a contorted facial expression)

Derivation:

pout (make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

eelpout; pout

Hypernyms ("pout" is a kind of...):

blennioid; blennioid fish (elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pout"):

viviparous eelpout; Zoarces viviparus (an eelpout of northern Europe that is viviparous)

fish doctor; Gymnelis viridis (brightly colored scaleless Arctic eelpout)

Macrozoarces americanus; ocean pout (common along northeastern coast of North America)

Holonyms ("pout" is a member of...):

family Zoarcidae; Zoarcidae (eelpouts)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Catfish common in eastern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ameiurus Melas; horned pout; hornpout; pout

Hypernyms ("pout" is a kind of...):

bullhead; bullhead catfish (any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States)

• POUT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pout    ... he / she / it pouts   
Past simple: pouted   
Past participle: pouted   
-ing form: pouting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be in a huff and display one's displeasure

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

brood; pout; sulk

Context example:

She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted

"Pout" entails doing...:

resent (feel bitter or indignant about)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pout"):

brood; grizzle; stew (be in a huff; be silent or sullen)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

pouter (someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

mop; mow; pout

Context example:

The girl pouted

Hypernyms (to "pout" is one way to...):

grimace; make a face; pull a face (contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

pout (a disdainful grimace)

pouter (someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression)

 Context examples 

“She is a tiresome creature,” said Dora, pouting.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"You were not following a word," she pouted.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) Facial and Oral Movements, Lips and perioral area, e.g., puckering, pouting, smacking.

(AIMS - Lips and Perioral Area, NCI Thesaurus)

Her great figure danced about with a wonderful lightness, and she tossed her head and pouted her lips as she answered back to the old, bent figure that addressed her.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alleyne had read of such folk, but had never seen one before, and could scarce take his eyes from the fellow's broad pouting lip and shining teeth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Don't be literary," she pouted, with growing tenderness. "I never did like epigrammatic discussion. Besides, I'm not afraid to ask you to forgive me."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And then she would pout like a disappointed child; a pensive cloud would soften her radiant vivacity; she would withdraw her hand hastily from his, and turn in transient petulance from his aspect, at once so heroic and so martyr-like.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Oh, but we don't want any best creatures!” pouted Dora.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The sight of him put me at my ease, for he was a merry-looking man, handsome too in a portly, full-blooded way, with laughing eyes and pouting, sensitive lips.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I say it's very hard I should be made so now,” returned my mother, pouting; “and it is—very hard—isn't it?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)