What does poutish mean?
Poutish means Pouty (all senses)..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Pouty (all senses)..
1913, Djuna Barnes, “‘Twingeless Twitchell’ and His Tantalizing Tweezers” in Alyce Barry (ed.) New York, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1989, p. 22, “How slow the city is in summer,” said Ikrima in that pretty, poutish way which always appeals to the biggest sort of men.
[…] those [women] that are sheepish, can very difficultly preserve themselves from being weather-born; and those that are waspish, are, as Solomon saith, a continual dropping; and the poutish are like a charnel-house, where sorrowful and glum silence make a solemn mourning:
She was the most consummate mistress of the value of a shading of emphasis, an uplifted eyebrow, a tiny, poutish moue, or a dainty shrug of the shoulders, when used in conjunction with an unended sentence, in declaring and pointing an unspoken opinion.
a poutish middle-class ire over my second-class status as a first-class taxpayer
Use poutish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Poutish means Pouty (all senses)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1913, Djuna Barnes, “‘Twingeless Twitchell’ and His Tantalizing Tweezers” in Alyce Barry (ed.) New York, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1989, p. 22, “How slow the city is in summer,” said Ikrima in that pretty, poutish way which always appeals to the biggest sort of men.
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