different between aout vs pout

English

Preposition

aout

1. (rare) Eye dialect spelling of out.
   • 1895, Harry Jones, Fifty Years: Or, Dead Leaves and Living Seeds, page 144

     ... and aout he come rasher nor iver, knockin' here and knockin' there, tell you couldn't hardly sleep for he.

   • 1919, Thomas Burke, Out and about London, page 115

     Git aout, else I'll split yer faice !

   • 1936, H.P. Lovecraft, "Shadow over Innsmouth":

     Ye see, they was able to live both in ant aout o' water–what they call amphibians, I guess.

Anagrams

• Auto, Auto., auto, auto-, auto., outa

French

Noun

aout m (plural aouts)

1. Post-1990 spelling of août.

Further reading

• “aout” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pa?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /p??t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English pouten, probably from Scandinavian (compare Norwegian pute (“pillow, cushion”), dial. Swedish puta (“to be puffed out”), Danish pude (“pillow, cushion”)), from Proto-Germanic *p?to (“swollen”) (compare English eelpout, Dutch puit, Low German puddig (“inflated”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”) (compare Sanskrit ??????? (budbuda, “bubble”)).

Verb

pout (third-person singular simple present pouts, present participle pouting, simple past and past participle pouted)

1. (intransitive) To push out one's lips.
2. (intransitive) To thrust itself outward; to be prominent.
3. (intransitive) To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
4. (transitive) To say while pouting.

Derived terms

• apout
• pouting (noun)

Synonyms

• moue

Translations

Noun

pout (plural pouts)

1. One's facial expression when pouting.
   • 2008, Vladimir Nabokov, Natasha, written 1924, translated by Dmitri Nabokov

     With a pout, Natasha counted the drops, and her eyelashes kept time.

2. A fit of sulking or sullenness.

Translations

See also

• pucker

Etymology 2

From Middle English *poute, from Old English *p?te as in ?leputa, ?lep?te (“eelpout”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to swell”).

Noun

pout (plural pouts)

1. (rare) Shortened name of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).

Derived terms

• eelpout, eel-pout
• hornpout

See also

• pout on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

Noun

pout (plural pouts)

1. Alternative form of poult

Verb

pout (third-person singular simple present pouts, present participle pouting, simple past and past participle pouted)

1. (Scotland) To shoot poults.

Anagrams

• puto, tupo, up to