different between pout vs poult

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English pult, a variant of pulet, polet, from Old French poulet (“young fowl”), diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pulla.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?lt/, /p??lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt, -??lt

Noun

poult (plural poults)

1. A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). [from 14th c.]
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 19:

     After an hour of fishing I saw a flock of turkeys on the opposite bank and shot one of the poults.

Derived terms

• heath-poult

Related terms

• poultry

Translations

Anagrams

• Pluto, pluot, pluto, pluto-