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Douted vs Pouted - What's the difference?

douted | pouted |

As verbs the difference between douted and pouted

is that douted is past tense of dout while pouted is past tense of pout.

douted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dout)

    • dout

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
    • The fire she lit was fanned rather than douted . ? Snowden.
    Related terms
    * douter, a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke. ----

    pouted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pout)

    • pout

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) pouten, probably from Scandinavian (compare (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One's facial expression when pouting.
  • * 2008 , (Vladimir Nabokov), Natasha] , written 1924, translated by [[w:Dmitri Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov]
    • With a pout , Natasha counted the drops, and her eyelashes kept time.
  • A fit of sulking or sullenness.
    • Derived terms
    * pouting (n)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To push out one's lips.
  • To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
  • To say while pouting.
    • Synonyms
    * moue

    See also

    * pucker

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , from Indo-European root beu having a meaning associated with the notion "to swell".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) Shortened name of various fishes such as the hornpout () and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).
    • Derived terms
    * eelpout, eel-pout * hornpout

    See also

    * (wikipedia "pout")

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) To shoot poults.

    • Anagrams

    * *