pout

Word family

pout /paʊt/ verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]

EXPRESSION ON somebody'S FACEto push out your lower lip because you are annoyed or unhappy, or in order to look sexually attractive 噘起（嘴唇），噘嘴〔因不高兴或为显得性感〕

He sounded like a pouting child.

他听上去像个生气噘嘴的孩子。

Her full lips pouted slightly.

她丰满的双唇微微噘起。

—pout noun [countableC]

—pouty adjectiveadj

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

pout verb

Chinese

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