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pouty

adj · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

adj

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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; [...] ’

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sulky, sullen

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Shaped into a pout; (of lips) protruding (often implying sulkiness or flirtiness). (of a mouth)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Characterized by pouting. (of an action or quality)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English pout Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English pouty From pout + -y.

Across languages

Translations

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: нацупен (nacupen) — angry in a cute way
  • Dutch: pruilend — angry in a cute way
  • Finnish: nyrpistelevä — angry in a cute way
  • Finnish: mököttävä — angry in a cute way
  • Hungarian: mogorva — angry in a cute way
  • Hungarian: barátságtalan — angry in a cute way
  • Plautdietsch: prunsch — angry in a cute way
  • Russian: наду́тый (nadútyj) — angry in a cute way