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Definition of "pout" [pout]

  • To exhibit displeasure or disappointment; sulk. (verb-intransitive)
  • To protrude the lips in an expression of displeasure or sulkiness. (verb-intransitive)
  • To project or protrude. (verb-intransitive)
  • To push out or protrude (the lips). (verb-transitive)
  • To utter or express with a pout. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "pout" in a sentence
  • "Being from minnesota eel pout is a celebrated thing but dont forget that leech lake has some amazing walleye fishing"
  • "Update, 5/26: "That Jolie can act as well as pout is finally proved by this French-accented turn, moving and modulated, as the woman whose husband became roadkill on the roadmap to a never-never Middle East peace process," writes Nigel Andrews in the Financial Times."
  • "If you're a tabloid fixture whose worth depends largely on how many photos are taken of you in a given day, it's a time to pose and pout, which is exactly what Kim Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton did at the Beverly Hilton Sunday night."