pout – English noun declension

English noun forms of pout

Noun: pout
Singularpout
Pluralpouts

Sample Sentences

  • 2008, Vladimir Nabokov, Natasha, written 1924, translated by Dmitri Nabokov
  • With a pout, Natasha counted the drops, and her eyelashes kept time.

Etymology

From Middle English pouten, probably from Scandinavian (compare Norwegian pute (“pillow, cushion”), dial. Swedish puta (“to be puffed out”), Danish pude (“pillow, cushion”)), from Proto-Germanic *pūto (“swollen”) (compare English eelpout, Dutch puit, Low German puddig (“inflated”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”) (compare Sanskrit बुद्बुद (budbuda, “bubble”)). See: Danish Nouns 'pude', English Nouns 'eelpout', Dutch Nouns 'puit'.

Verbs referencing "pout"

Swedish Nouns putt.