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POUT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Catfish common in eastern United States

Synonyms:

Ameiurus Melas; horned pout; hornpout; pout

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pout" is a kind of...):

bullhead; bullhead catfish (any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas

Synonyms:

eelpout; pout

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pout" is a kind of...):

blennioid; blennioid fish (elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pout"):

viviparous eelpout; Zoarces viviparus (an eelpout of northern Europe that is viviparous)

fish doctor; Gymnelis viridis (brightly colored scaleless Arctic eelpout)

Macrozoarces americanus; ocean pout (common along northeastern coast of North America)

Holonyms ("pout" is a member of...):

family Zoarcidae; Zoarcidae (eelpouts)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A disdainful grimace

Synonyms:

moue; pout; wry face

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pout" is a kind of...):

face; grimace (a contorted facial expression)

Derivation:

pout (make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

Example:

The girl pouted

Synonyms:

mop; mow; pout

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "pout" is one way to...):

grimace; make a face; pull a face (contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

pout (a disdainful grimace)

pouter (someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be in a huff and display one's displeasure

Example:

She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted

Synonyms:

brood; pout; sulk

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

"Pout" entails doing...:

resent (feel bitter or indignant about)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pout"):

brood; grizzle; stew (be in a huff; be silent or sullen)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

pouter (someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression)

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 Context examples: 

Then Dora beat him, and pouted, and said, “My poor beautiful flowers!” as compassionately, I thought, as if Jip had laid hold of me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“How can you ask me anything so foolish?” pouted Dora.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)