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Word entry · 4 letters

pout

Best crossword clue

"Push out lips"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /paʊt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted optuStarts with PEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

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

Word origin

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”)).

Used in a sentence

  • "Don't you love me any more?" she pouted.
  • 2008, Vladimir Nabokov, Natasha, written 1924, translated by Dmitri Nabokov With a pout, Natasha counted the drops, and her eyelashes kept time.

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