Noun: pout
Sample Sentences
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2008, Vladimir Nabokov, Natasha, written 1924, translated by Dmitri Nabokov
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With a pout, Natasha counted the drops, and her eyelashes kept time.
Nouns inflected like pout
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English pouten, probably from Scandinavian (compare Norwegian pute (“pillow, cushion”), dial. Swedish puta (“to be puffed out”), Danish pude (“pillow, cushion”)), from Proto-Germanic *pūto (“swollen”) (compare English eelpout, Dutch puit, Low German puddig (“inflated”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”) (compare Sanskrit बुद्बुद (budbuda, “bubble”)). See: Danish Nouns '
pude', English Nouns '
eelpout', Dutch Nouns '
puit'.
Verbs referencing "pout"
Swedish Nouns
putt.