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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

bag, balloon, beetle, belly, belly out, bilge, billow, bouge, brood, bug, bulge, dilate, distend, frown, gloom, glower, goggle, grimace, grump, jut, knit the brow, long face, look black, look sullen, lour, lower, make a face, make a lip, make a moue, make a mouth, mop, mop and mow, mope, moue, mouth, mow, mug, overhang, pet, poke, pooch, pop, pouch, project, protrude, pull a face, rictus, round out, scowl, snarl, stand out, stick out, sulk, swell, swell out, wry face, wry mouth

Dictionary Results for pout:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

pout
    n 1: a disdainful grimace [syn: pout, moue, wry face]
    2: marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas
       [syn: eelpout, pout]
    3: catfish common in eastern United States [syn: 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" [syn: sulk,
         pout, brood]
    2: make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and
       mow"; "The girl pouted" [syn: pout, mop, mow]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pout \Pout\ (p[=oo]t), n. [F. poulet. See Poult.]
   The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. --Carew.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pout \Pout\ (p[=oo]t), v. i.
   To shoot pouts. [Scot.]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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            Thou poutest upon thy fortune and thy love. --Shak.
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   2. To protrude. "Pouting lips." --Dryden.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pout \Pout\, n.
   A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. "Jack's
   in the pouts." --J. & H. Smith.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pout \Pout\, n. [Cf. Eelpout.] (Zool.)
   The European whiting pout or bib.
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   Eel pout. (Zool.) See Eelpout.

   Horn pout, or Horned pout. (Zool.) See Bullhead
   (b) .
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7. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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   2. (Zool.) An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the
      cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.
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   3. A bibcock.
      [1913 Webster] Bib

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