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English Dictionary: Pout by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pout
n
  1. a disdainful grimace
    Synonym(s): pout, moue, wry face
  2. marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas
    Synonym(s): eelpout, pout
  3. catfish common in eastern United States
    Synonym(s): horned pout, hornpout, pout, Ameiurus Melas
v
  1. be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted"
    Synonym(s): sulk, pout, brood
  2. make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted"
    Synonym(s): pout, mop, mow
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pout \Pout\, n.
      A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness.
      [bd]Jack's in the pouts.[b8] --J. & H. Smith.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pout \Pout\, n. [Cf. {Eelpout}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      The European whiting pout or bib.
  
      {Eel pout}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Eelpout}.
  
      {Horn pout}, [or] {Horned pout}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Bullhead}
      (b) .

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pout \Pout\ (p[oomac]t), n. [F. poulet. See {Poult}.]
      The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. --Carew.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pout \Pout\ (p[oomac]t), v. i.
      To shoot pouts. [Scot.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pout \Pout\ (pout), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pouted}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Pouting}.] [OE. pouten, of uncertain origin; cf. Prov.
      pot lip, Prov. F. potte, faire la potte to pout, W. pwdu to
      pout, be sullen, poten, potten, a paunch, belly.]
      1. To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure;
            hence, to look sullen.
  
                     Thou poutest upon thy fortune and thy love. --Shak.
  
      2. To protrude. [bd]Pouting lips.[b8] --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bib \Bib\, n. [From {Bib}, v., because the bib receives the
      drink that the child slavers from the mouth.]
      1. A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast,
            to protect the clothes.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) An arctic fish ({Gadus luscus}), allied to the
            cod; -- called also {pout} and {whiting pout}.
  
      3. A bibcock.
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