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Pouting vs Glouting - What's the difference?

pouting | glouting |

As verbs the difference between pouting and glouting

is that pouting is while glouting is .

As a noun pouting

is an expression or motion that pouts; a pout or pouting can be a fish in the cod family (gadidae''), ''trisopterus luscus .

As an adjective glouting is

sullen, pouting.

pouting

English

Etymology 1

See pout.

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An expression or motion that pouts; a pout.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • The muscles about the mouth exhibited puckering movements and occasional pursings and poutings of the lips.

    Etymology 2

    See

    Noun

  • A fish in the cod family (Gadidae''), ''Trisopterus luscus
    • Synonyms
    * (Trisopterus luscus) bib, bleg (Northeast England), pout whiting, pout
    See also
    * (Trisopterus luscus)

    glouting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • sullen, pouting
  • *
    • She had been greatly, therefore, disappointed in the morning, when Mrs Western had changed her mind on the very point of departure; and had been in what is vulgarly called a glouting humour ever since.

    Synonyms

    * (sullen) pouting, sulky, sullen

    Verb

    (head)