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Polt vs Pout - What's the difference?

polt | pout |

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

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * polt-foot

    Anagrams

    * *

    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

    * *