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Skulk vs Pout - What's the difference?

skulk | pout |

As nouns the difference between skulk and pout

is that skulk is a group of foxes 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 verbs the difference between skulk and pout

is that skulk is to conceal oneself; to hide while pout is to push out one's lips or pout can be (scotland) to shoot poults.

skulk

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of foxes.
  • (Wright)
  • One who skulks; a skulker.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to conceal oneself; to hide
  • * Dryden
  • Discovered and defeated of your prey, / You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.
  • * 1852 , Charles Dickens, Bleak House ,
  • Behind dingy blind and curtain, in upper story and garret, skulking more or less under false names, false hair, false titles, false jewellery, and false histories, a colony of brigands lie in their first sleep.
  • to sneak around, sneak about
  • * 1904 , Paul Laurence Dunbar,
  • Fully a dozen of the citizens had seen him hastening toward the woods and noted his skulking air [...]
  • to shirk; to avoid obligation
  • 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

    * *