pout

名词 n. 动词 v.
/paʊt/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One's facial expression when pouting.
    — 2008, Vladimir Nabokov, Natasha, written 1924, translated by Dmitri Nabokov With a pout, Natasha counted the drops, and her eyelashes kept time.
  2. Any of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae). rare
  3. Alternative form of poult. alt-of,alternative
  4. A fit of sulking or sullenness.
动词 v.
  1. To push out one's lips; especially, to do so in a gesture of dismay, either serious or playful. intransitive
  2. To shoot poults. Scotland
  3. To thrust itself outward; to be prominent. intransitive
  4. To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk. intransitive
  5. To say while pouting. transitive
    — "Don't you love me any more?" she pouted.

词形变化

pouts present,singular,third-person pouting participle,present pouted participle,past pouted past pouts plural pouts plural pouts plural pouts present,singular,third-person pouting participle,present pouted participle,past pouted past

词源

词源 1
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”)).
词源 2
From Middle English *poute, from Old English *pūte as in ǣlepūta, ǣlepūte (“eelpout”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to swell”). Related to pout (“to push one's lip out”).
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