pouty

Adjective

pouty (comparative poutier, superlative poutiest)

1. Tending to pout; angry in a childish or cute way; showing mock anger. (of a person)
   • ‘My dear Doctor,’ said he, ‘this wrathful man thinks you have been unsuccessful, and is primed to be pouty; let us enjoy the pleasure of discovery by a little delay; […] ’1799, Cassandra Leigh Cook, Battleridge, London: Cawthorn, Volume 1, Chapter 5, p. 77
   • Long ago when Jade used to come for holiday visits, Margaret found her awkward and pouty, but now that she was grown up, she was pretty and a lot of fun.1981, Tony Morrison, Tar Baby, New York: New American Library, published 1983, page 72

   Synonyms:

   sulky, sullen

2. Shaped into a pout; (of lips) protruding (often implying sulkiness or flirtiness). (of a mouth)
   • Was there ever a baby seen, or even read of, like that baby! […] he is a little pouty about the mouth—but such a mouth!1851, Donald Grant Mitchell (as Ik. Marvel.), Dream Life, New York: Scribner, Chapter 5, pp. 239-240
   • Those girls, who could have been her daughters, were beautiful. […] Their mouths were pouty little cupid’s bows.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 16, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, page 104
3. Characterized by pouting. (of an action or quality)
   • Where other actresses offer us a sort of pouty boredom which yet seeks to flirt with the audience, Huppert presents severity, anger, and an irritation raised to the condition of nausea.2002, Julian Barnes, Something to Declare, London: Picador, page 278
   • Only their full red lips bore similarity, the father’s bubbly wedges endowing him with a drag queen’s pouty glamour.2006, Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan, London: Granta, 2008, Chapter 27, p. 214