▪ I. pout, n.1
(paʊt)
Also 1 *puta, 6 poute, 8 powt.
[OE. *p{uacu}ta in ǽle-p{uacu}tan pl., eel-pout = MDu. puyt(e, pût, puut, puyde a pout, also a frog (cf. puytael, aelpuyt), Du. puit, Flem. puut, puud a frog, Du. puitaal, EFris. pût(-âl), LG. pūt(-âl), (âl-)putt, pute, G. (aal-)putte eel-pout; app. from a verbal stem *put- to inflate: see quot. 1836 and cf. next.]
A name applied to several kinds of fish, most commonly to the bib or whiting-pout: see also eel-pout, horn-pout.
| [c 1000 ælfric Colloq. in Wr.-Wülcker 94 Hwilce fixas ᵹefehst þu ? ælas and hacodas mynas and æleputan sceotan and lampredan.] 1591 Nashe Prognost. 17 If there bee few or none [eels] taken, and plentie of poutes to bee had [with pun on next]. 1706 Phillips, Powt, a Fish otherwise call'd a Sea-Lamprey. 1809 A. Henry Trav. 252 We took pouts, cat-fish, cat-heads, of six pounds weight. 1836 Yarrell Brit. Fishes II. 159 From a singular power of inflating a membrane which covers the eyes and other parts about the head,..it is called Pout, Bib, Blens, and Blinds. 1837 Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. (1883) 65 The fish caught were..three horned pouts. 1880 F. Day Fishes Gt. Brit. I. 287 Bib, pout..brassie in Scotland. |
▪ II. pout, n.2
(paʊt)
[f. pout v.1]
A protrusion of the lips, expressive of pique or annoyance. in the pouts, in a pouting mood, sulky.
| 1591 Nashe Prognost. 17 Plentie of poutes to bee had in all places, especiallie in those coastes and Countries where weomen haue not their owne willes. 1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe i. 45 The fat is in the fire, she is in the powt, all a mort. 1631 R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xv. §2. 255 A Bessy Babe, that must be dandled, and in every thing humoured else she feeds all upon Poutes [with pun on prec.] 1694 Motteux Rabelais iv. lvi, Panurge somewhat vex'd Fryar Jhon, and put him in the Pouts. 1795 Jemima I. 82, I could not be brought out of the pouts. 1812 H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Baby's Debut, Jack's in the pouts, and this it is—He thinks mine came to more than his. 1892 Gunter Miss Dividends 23 ‘Then you don't think it wise?’ mutters the girl, with a pout. |
b. transf. Protrusion, projection.
| 1880 Browning Dram. Idylls ii. Pan & Luna 45 That pure undraped Pout of the sister paps. |
c. Comb., as pout-mouthing, † pout puffing.
| 1605 Camden Rem. (1637) 135 Baldwin le Pettour..held his land in Suffolke, Per saltum, sufflum & pettum, sive bumbulum, for dancing, pout-puffing, and doing that before the King of England in Christmasse holy dayes, which the word pet signifieth in French. 1807 Coleridge Lett., to H. Coleridge (1895) 514 Your mad passions and frantic looks and pout-mouthing. |
▪ III. pout, n.3 dial. (Kent).
[Origin obscure.]
A small round stack of hay or straw; = pook n.
| 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 15 Cattle fed in winter time at the same pout of hay... Cattle feeding at a hay-pout. 1736 Pegge Kenticisms, Pout; as an hay-pout, a round stack of hay. Plot, a Kentish author, has it. 1887 Kentish Gloss. s.v., In the field hay is put up into smaller heaps, called cocks, and larger ones, called pouts; when carted it is made into a stack. |
▪ IV. † pout, n.4 Obs.
[perh. from pout v.1 or n.2]
A workman's name for the mount of the lens of a simple microscope, by means of which the lens is attached to a Lieberkühn.
| 1832 A. Pritchard Microsc. Cabinet 189 All globular bodies, having polished surfaces, reflect an image of the cups, and the pout, if there is one, appears as a dark spot in the centre. 1837 Goring & Pritchard Microgr. 31 A great deal may be done with cups having single lenses inserted in them which they do not fit, by raising or lowering their pouts or settings by means of rings of thin metal, till the focus of the lens and of the cup fall on the same point. [1907 F. A. Parsons (Sec. Roy. Micr. Soc.) in Let., The term pout probably went out of use about 1845. I have made enquiry of all the leading Microscope makers in London, but not one has ever heard of the term.] |
▪ V. † pout, n.5 Coal Mining. Obs.
A kind of punch: see quot.
| 1849 Greenwell Coal-trade Terms Northumb. & Durh., Pout, Punch, a tool used by the deputies in drawing timber out of a dangerous place. It has a shank about 8 feet long, with a spade handle, and a head, pointed and slightly curved towards the handle at one side, and like a hammer at the other. It is used as a ram to knock the props down, or to draw them out after they have been knocked down. |
▪ VI. pout, n.6
Sc. and dial. form of poult n.1
▪ VII. pout, v.1
(paʊt)
Also 4–6 poute, 5–8 powt, 6 powte, powlt.
[Known only from c 1300; previous history obscure. Conjectured to represent an OE. *p{uacu}tian, from a verbal stem *put- to swell, be inflated, of which p{uacu}ta, pout n.1, might be the agent-noun. But the evidence for this vb. in the cognate langs. is scanty: Sw. has dial. puta to be inflated; Sw. and Norw. puta pad, Da. pude cushion, pillow, pointing to an ON. *p{uacu}ta; cf. NFris. pütt, pute cushion, bolster.]
1. intr. To thrust out or protrude the lips, esp. in expression of displeasure or sullenness; hence, to show displeasure.
| ? c 1325 Old Age vii. in E.E.P. (1862) 149 Now i pirtle, i pofte [? poffe], i poute, I snurpe, i snobbe, i sneipe on snovte, Þroȝ kund i comble an kelde. c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 294 Be not gapynge nor ganynge, ne with þy mouth to powt. 1570 Levins Manip. 228/36 To Poute, caperare. 1575 Churchyard Chippes i. *iv, Busie brains: That powlts and swels at others toils, and take themselues no pains. 1582 Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 18 Shee pouts, that Ganymed by Ioue too skitop is hoysed. 1592 Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. iii. 144 (Qo 5, 1637) But like a misbehav'd and sullen wench, Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love [Qo 4, powts vpon; Qos 2, 3, puts vp; Folios, puttest vp; Qo 1, Thou frownst vpon thy Fate that smiles on thee]. 1607 ― Cor. v. i. 52 The Veines vnfill'd, our blood is cold, and then We powt vpon the Morning. 1655 Capel Tentations 14 Ah, this wretched flesh of mine that can pout and swell at God our best friend. 1706 Phillips, To Powt, to look gruff or surly, to hang out the Lip. 1866 G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. v, Here the girl pretended to pout. |
b. Without implication of displeasure: To swell out, to protrude, as lips.
| 1598, 1624, 1735 [see pouting ppl. a.]. 1812 Byron Ch. Har. i. lviii. 1816 J. Wilson City of Plague i. iv. 121 Her lips would pout With a perpetual simper. 1869 Mrs. Heaton A. Dürer i. i. (1881) 37 The full childish lips pout out as if waiting to be kissed. 1896 J. Ashby-Sterry Tale Thames (1903) 62/2 Sleeves closely furled to exhibit the charm Of a biceps that pouts 'neath a snowy white arm. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 980 He should note the shape of the anus, and observe whether it is pouting. |
2. trans. To push out, to protrude (esp. the lips).
| [c 1532 G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 952 To powte, poussir.] 1784 tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 69 Gulchenrouz..pouted out his vermilion little lips against the offer. 1798 F. Burney Lett. 28 Aug., She received me..pouting out her sweet ruby lips for me to kiss. 1842 Tennyson Day-Dream, Sleeping Palace iv, Her lips are sever'd as to speak: His own are pouted to a kiss. 1870 Rolleston Anim. Life 144 In a starfish which has died with its stomach pouted out. |
b. To utter or say with a pout.
| 1877 Mrs. Forrester Mignon I. 52 ‘Horrid old wretch’..‘I wish he had not come’, pouts Mignon. 1892 Gunter Miss Dividends 131 Then she pouts, ‘You've had all my dances’. |
▪ VIII. pout, v.2 Sc.
(paʊt)
[Sc. form of poult v. f. pout, poult n.1]
intr. To shoot at poults. Hence ˈpouter, ‘a sportsman who shoots young partridges or moorfowl’ (Jam.); ˈpouting vbl. n.2, shooting at partridge or moorfowl poults; also attrib., as in pouting-net, a net for securing poults.
| a 1679 J. Somerville Mem. Somervilles (1815) I. 241 To take his pleasure at the poutting in Calder and Carnwath Muires. 1789 D. Davidson Seasons 114 Now Willy..Wi' pointers on the hills did stan, The prince o' pouters. 1816 Scott Antiq. xliii, Something that will keep the Captain wi' us amaist as well as the pouting. 1840 Contemporaries of Burns 116 The ‘pouting season’, as it is called, was to her a period of more than ordinary enjoyment. 1905 Blackw. Mag. Jan. 123/1 ‘Pouting nets’ were purchased for the better securing of muirfowl and partridges. |
▪ IX. pout, v.3 dial. (Kent.)
[f. pout n.3]
trans. To put up (hay, etc.) into pouts; to pook.
| 1617 in Archæol. Cant. (1902) XXV. 15 Robert Terry [presented] for profaning of the Sabbath Day, by binding barley, and powting of podder, upon the Sabbath. |