▪ I. pouting, n.
(ˈpaʊtɪŋ)
[f. pout n.1 + -ing3.]
A kind of small fish; a small kind of whiting, a whiting-pout (Morrhua lusca).
| 1591 Lyly Endym. iii. iii, For fish these; crab, carpe, lumpe, and powting. 1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 247 In which were caught a few poutings, conger, and wrasse. 1883 Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 13 A favourite Bait for Whiting, Pouting, Codfish, &c. |
▪ II. pouting, vbl. n.1
(ˈpaʊtɪŋ)
[f. pout v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of pout v.1
| 1556 J. Careles in Foxe A. & M. (1583) 1933/2 Beware in any wise of swelling, powting, or lowring, for that is a token of a cruel and vnlouing heart. a 1625 Fletcher Hum. Lieutenant iii. ii, Never look coy, lady; These are no gifts to be put off with poutings. 1716 Addison Freeholder No. 8. 45 To forbear frowning upon Loyalists, and Pouting at the Government. 1872 Darwin Emotions ix. 232 With young children sulkiness is shown by pouting, or, as it is sometimes called, ‘making a snout’. |
b. attrib. as pouting-cloth, pouting-crosscloth, pouting-place.
| 1589 Pappe w. Hatchet D iv b, Ile make him pull his powting crosscloath ouer his beetle browes for melancholie. 1602 Withals' Dict. 275 A Crosse cloath (as they tarme it) a Powtingcloth, plagula. 1790 Pennant London (1813) 163 It was successively the pouting-place of princes. |
▪ III. pouting
see also under pout v.2
▪ IV. pouting, ppl. a.
(ˈpaʊtɪŋ)
[f. pout v.1 + -ing2.]
That pouts, in various senses of the vb.
| 1563 Mirr. Mag., Hastings xiv, Powtyng lookes. 1598 Bp. Hall Sat. iv. i. 68 His pouting cheeks puff vp aboue his brow Like a swolne Toad touch't with the Spiders blow. 1624 K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis i. ii. 5 He had no great powting lips, nor little eyes sunke into his head. 1693 Lond. Gaz. No. 2853/4 There is 113 pair of Pigeons,..as Carriers, Cropers,..Shakers, Pouting Horsemen, Barbaries,..to be sold. 1727 Gay Begg. Op. i. viii, Yes, that you might, you pouting slut. 1735 Somerville Chase iv. 89 They seek the pouting Teat That plenteous streams. 1760 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 159 At a sale of powting-pigeons..one pair was sold for 16 guineas. 1863 Geo. Eliot Romola x, The corners of the pouting mouth went down piteously. |
Hence ˈpoutingly adv., in a pouting manner.
| 1632 Sherwood, Powtingly, rechignément. 1832 L. Hunt Naiads Poems 197 Like fondled things Eye poutingly their hands. 1863 Geo. Eliot Romola xiv, Her lips were pressed poutingly together. |