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Date: 1300-1400
Origin: Perhaps from a Scandinavian language

pout

 verb
     
pout [intransitive and transitive]
to push out your lower lip because you are annoyed or unhappy, or in order to look sexually attractive:
He sounded like a pouting child.
Her full lips pouted slightly.
—pout noun [countable]
—pouty adjective
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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