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Definition of Pouty
1. tending to pout [adj POUTIER, POUTIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pouty
Literary usage of Pouty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rhymes and Jingles for a Good Child by Gertrude E. Heath (1897)
"pouty-LIPS and Laughing-eyes, Queerest pair beneath the skies! One is like the
summer sun, Thunder-cloud the other one! Sometimes when the sun looks through ..."
2. Wonders of Glass-making in All Ages by Alexandre Sauzay (1875)
"pouty.—A long rod of solid iron, serving either for drawing the glass out ...
To obtain this result, the boy applies his pouty to the glass whilst still in ..."
3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"In the simpler forms of metre the divisions are usually obvious, but in the more
elaborate kinds of lyrical pouty this is not so. One criterion by which it ..."
4. Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons by Donald Grant Mitchell, Ik. Marvel (1851)
"Look at him :—pick him up in his long, white gown : ho may have an excess of
colour,—but such a pretty co,our ! he is a little pouty about the mouth— ..."
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