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Pouting vs Touting - What's the difference?

pouting | touting |

As verbs the difference between pouting and touting

is that pouting is present participle of lang=en while touting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between pouting and touting

is that pouting is an expression or motion that pouts; a pout while touting is the act of one who touts.

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)

    touting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who touts.
  • * 1850 , F. A. Wilson, ?Alfred Bate Richards, Britain Redeemed and Canada Preserved (page 186)
    • Abortive therefore, in a great measure, are the daily toutings of the emigration speculators, and their active crimps, with all their plausible assurances of speedy independence to be gained by adventurers of the pauper class