Stare vs Pout - What's the difference?
stare | pout |
To look fixedly (at something).
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, Her sturdy stallion had now unbutton'd, and produced naked, stiff, and erect, that wonderful machine, which I had never seen before, and which, for the interest my own seat of pleasure began to take furiously in it, I star'd at with all the eyes I had}}
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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.
:staring windows or colours
(obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare .
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*:Take off all the staring straws and jags in the hive.
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 verbs the difference between stare and pout
is that stare is to look fixedly (at something) while pout is to push out one's lips.As nouns the difference between stare and pout
is that stare is a persistent gaze while pout is one's facial expression when pouting.stare
English
(wikipedia stare)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(star)John Mortimer(1656?-1736)
Troponyms
* gaze, to stare intently or earnestly * ogle, to stare covetously or amorouslyDerived terms
* stare someone in the faceEtymology 2
(etyl)Anagrams
* ----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.