Pouty

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Tending to pout; angry in a childish or cute way; showing mock anger. (of a person).

Definitions by Sense

1. Tending to pout; angry in a childish or cute way; showing mock anger. (of a person)
2. Shaped into a pout; (of lips) protruding (often implying sulkiness or flirtiness). (of a mouth)
3. Characterized by pouting. (of an action or quality)

Example Sentences

1799, Cassandra Leigh Cook, Battleridge, London: Cawthorn, Volume 1, Chapter 5, p. 77, ‘My dear Doctor,’ said he, ‘this wrathful man thinks you have been unsuccessful, and is primed to be pouty; let us enjoy the pleasure of discovery by a little delay; […] ’

Long ago when Jade used to come for holiday visits, Margaret found her awkward and pouty, but now that she was grown up, she was pretty and a lot of fun.

1851, Donald Grant Mitchell (as Ik. Marvel.), Dream Life, New York: Scribner, Chapter 5, pp. 239-240, Was there ever a baby seen, or even read of, like that baby! […] he is a little pouty about the mouth—but such a mouth!

Those girls, who could have been her daughters, were beautiful. […] Their mouths were pouty little cupid’s bows.

a pale brunette whose pouty Maybelline red lips put Scarlett O’Hara’s sneer to shame

2006, Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan, London: Granta, 2008, Chapter 27, p. 214, Only their full red lips bore similarity, the father’s bubbly wedges endowing him with a drag queen’s pouty glamour.

Where other actresses offer us a sort of pouty boredom which yet seeks to flirt with the audience, Huppert presents severity, anger, and an irritation raised to the condition of nausea.

He suffered on his journey, delivering a pouty soliloquy on hunger, cold, and wild beasts.

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Word Forms

• poutier
• poutiest

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