moue
/muː/
moue noun: a pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness.
Noun
moue (plural moues)
- A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness.
- [S]he looked at her face and made a moue in the glass; and never stopped for Laura’s answer to the questions which she had put.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 221
- She glanced aside to the rim of the looking-glass where his photograph was wedged, shuddered, and made a moue of distaste.1913 October, Jack London, chapter VI, in The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC
moue meaning in Tamil and Urdu
moue in Tamil
- உதட்டைப் பிதுப்புக்குதல், முகம் சுழித்தல்
moue in Urdu
- چڑچڑا پن, ترش روی
Examples of moue in a sentence
- She made what I believe, though I wouldn't swear to it, is called a moue.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- Why do you wear European clothes?" fumed Oscar de la Renta with a moue of disapproval and stamp of his bejewelled foot (probably).2011 February 2, Hadley Freeman, “Should Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton be patriotic about designers?”, in The Guardian:
Forms of moue
| plural | moues |
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Origin of moue
Borrowed from French moue, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Doublet of mow ("grimace").
Words that rhyme with moue
Questions about moue
- What does moue mean?
- Moue means a pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness.
- What is moue in Tamil?
- Moue in Tamil is உதட்டைப் பிதுப்புக்குதல், முகம் சுழித்தல். See Moue meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use moue in a sentence?
- She made what I believe, though I wouldn't swear to it, is called a moue.
- What part of speech is moue?
- Moue is a noun.
- How do you pronounce moue?
- Moue is pronounced /muː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of moue?
- The plural of moue is moues.
Words near moue in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: moue (page history and authors); moue (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); moue (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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