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poutish

poutish adjective: pouty (all senses).

Adjective

poutish (comparative more poutish, superlative most poutish)

  1. Pouty (all senses).
    • […] those [women] that are sheepish, can very difficultly preserve themselves from being weather-born; and those that are waspish, are, as Solomon saith, a continual dropping; and the poutish are like a charnel-house, where sorrowful and glum silence make a solemn mourning:1671, Caleb Trenchfield, “Of the choice of a Wife”, in A Cap of Grey Hairs for a Green Head, London: Henry Eversden, page 117
    • She was the most consummate mistress of the value of a shading of emphasis, an uplifted eyebrow, a tiny, poutish moue, or a dainty shrug of the shoulders, when used in conjunction with an unended sentence, in declaring and pointing an unspoken opinion.1899, Frank Kinsella, chapter 4, in The Degeneration of Dorothy, New York: G.W. Dillingham, page 106

Forms of poutish

comparativemore poutish
superlativemost poutish

Origin of poutish

From pout + -ish.

Questions about poutish

What does poutish mean?
Poutish means pouty (all senses).
What part of speech is poutish?
Poutish is an adjective.

Words near poutish in the dictionary

  1. poutines
  2. poutiness
  3. pouting
  4. poutingly
  5. poutings
  6. poutish
  7. poutrage
  8. pouts
  9. poutsome
  10. pouty
  11. Pouyan

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