Polt vs Pout - What's the difference?
polt | pout |
A hard knock.
*1782:' , ''Cecilia, or memoirs of an heiress'' - If he know'd I'd got you the knife, he'd go nigh to give me a good ' polt of the head.
(obsolete, rare) A pestle.
*1612 , John Smith, Map of Virginia , in Kupperman 1988, p. 138:
*:Their corne they rost in the eare greene, and bruising it in a morter of wood with a Polt , lappe it in rowles in the leaves of their corne, and so boyle it for a daintie.
One's facial expression when pouting.
* 2008 , (Vladimir Nabokov),
A fit of sulking or sullenness.
To push out one's lips.
To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
To say while pouting.
(rare) Shortened name of various fishes such as the hornpout () and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).
As nouns the difference between polt and pout
is that polt is a hard knock while pout is one's facial expression when pouting or pout can be (rare) shortened name of various fishes such as the hornpout () and the eelpouts (zoarcidae) or pout can be .As a verb pout is
to push out one's lips or pout can be (scotland) to shoot poults.polt
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(en noun)Derived terms
* polt-footAnagrams
* *pout
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Etymology 1
(etyl) pouten, probably from Scandinavian (compare (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Natasha], written 1924, translated by [[w:Dmitri Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov]
- With a pout , Natasha counted the drops, and her eyelashes kept time.