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Pouting vs Beaming - What's the difference?

pouting | beaming |

As verbs the difference between pouting and beaming

is that pouting is present participle of lang=en while beaming is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between pouting and beaming

is that pouting is an expression or motion that pouts; a pout while beaming is the act of someone or something that beams.

As an adjective beaming is

smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.

pouting

English

Etymology 1

See pout.

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An expression or motion that pouts; a pout.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • The muscles about the mouth exhibited puckering movements and occasional pursings and poutings of the lips.

    Etymology 2

    See

    Noun

  • A fish in the cod family (Gadidae''), ''Trisopterus luscus
    • Synonyms
    * (Trisopterus luscus) bib, bleg (Northeast England), pout whiting, pout
    See also
    * (Trisopterus luscus)

    beaming

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.
  • * c.1846-1848 , ,
    • The honest Captain, with his Heart's Delight in the house, and Susan tending her, was a beaming' and a happy man. As the days flew by, he grew more ' beaming and more happy, every day.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of someone or something that beams.
  • * 1826 , Humphry William Woolrych, The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke, Knt
    • The auspicious beamings of the Reformation had indeed shed forth a partial light; but the gloomy sternness of Henry, and the arbitrary capriciousness of Elizabeth, were but ill calculated to give due energy to the new state of things

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