• a b
  • Log In
  • Home
  • Vocabulary
  • Writing
  • Mobile apps
  • Help
  • ©2017 EdictFree.
    All Rights Reserved.
Vocabulary
  • Topic
Help
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy policy
Mobile apps
  • Android
  • Ios
Bright
  • Home
  • Vocabulary
    • Topic
  • Writing

Free Online Dictionary

The home of living English, with more than 820,000 words, meanings and phrases
All Properties select
District 1 District 2 District 7 More

Longman Dictionary English

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpoutpout /paʊt/ verb [intransitive, transitive] EXPRESSION ON somebody'S FACEto push out your lower lip because you are annoyed or unhappy, or in order to look sexually attractive He sounded like a pouting child. Her full lips pouted slightly. —pout noun [countable] —pouty adjective→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
pout• Stop pouting and eat your dinner.• Her lips pout around the filter and her cheeks collapse in as she draws deeply.• Her mouth pouted further, if that were possible.• As I came up out of the trough, the wave was pouting out a lip like the deck of an aircraft carrier.• Amelia seemed to pout, playing with a salt shaker.• But she was focused on Tillman now; showing him a pouting smile.• Cases like these should be distinguished from a superficially parallel set of cases such as shrug the shoulders and pout the lips.• Also she pouts, which in a woman her age is ludicrous, but effective.lips pouted• The firm lips pouted in a sulk.
Origin pout (1300-1400) Perhaps from a Scandinavian language
ldoceonline.com
Word of day

May 13, 2025

laundry basket
noun
Ad
Mobile apps

Browse our dictionary apps today and ensure you are never again lost for words.

Follow
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
Find Out More
  • Contact us
  • Privacy policy
Copyright EdictFree.Com All Rights Reserved.
Design by EdictFree
Copyright EdictFree.Com All Rights Reserved.
Design by EdictFree