Skulk vs Pout - What's the difference?
skulk | pout |
to conceal oneself; to hide
* Dryden
* 1852 , Charles Dickens, Bleak House ,
to sneak around, sneak about
* 1904 , Paul Laurence Dunbar,
to shirk; to avoid obligation
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 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
Verb
(en verb)- Discovered and defeated of your prey, / You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.
- 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.
- Fully a dozen of the citizens had seen him hastening toward the woods and noted his skulking air [...]
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.