Pout vs Flirt - What's the difference?
pout | flirt |
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).
A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
* Addison
* Edgar Allan Poe
One who flirts; especially a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
* Addison
An episode of flirting.
To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
To jeer at; to mock.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
*, II.27:
To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
* 2012 , Lenora Worth, Sweetheart Reunion
To blurt out.
* 1915 , Thornton W. Burgess, The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel , Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, Ch.XXI:
(senseid)To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.
* 2006 , The Guardian , 21 April:
pert; wanton
As nouns the difference between pout and flirt
is that 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 while flirt is flirtation.As a verb pout
is to push out one's lips or pout can be (scotland) to shoot poults.pout
English
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.
Derived terms
* pouting (n)Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* moueSee also
* puckerEtymology 2
From (etyl) , from Indo-European root beu having a meaning associated with the notion "to swell".Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* eelpout, eel-pout * hornpoutSee also
* (wikipedia "pout")Etymology 3
Anagrams
* *flirt
English
Noun
(en noun)- Several little flirts and vibrations.
- With many a flirt and flutter.
- Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)- They flirt water in each other's faces.
- to flirt a glove, or a handkerchief
- I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted .
- Asinius Pollio , having written many invectives against Plancus, staid untill he were dead to publish them. It was rather to flurt at a blind man, and raile in a dead mans eare, and to offend a senselesse man, than incurre the danger of his revenge.
- Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal.
- Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled.
- Dr Hutchinson, who told jurors that he had been married for 37 years and that his son was a policeman, said he enjoyed flirting with the woman, was flattered by her attention and was anticipating patting her bottom again—but had no intention of seducing her.