pout
verb [intransitive, transitive]- pout (something) | + speech
if you pout, pout your lips or if your lips pout, you push out your lips, to show you are annoyed or to look sexually attractive (恼怒或性感地)噘嘴 He pouted angrily. 他生气地噘起嘴。 Her lips pouted invitingly. 她挑逗地撮起双唇。 models pouting their lips for the camera 隆唇拍照的模特儿
Extra ExamplesShe pouted prettily at him. 她冲他撅着嘴,样子很可爱。 ‘But you knew how I felt about him,’ she pouted. “但你知道我对他的感觉,”她撅着嘴说。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- slightly
- cutely
- playfully
- …
- at
Word OriginMiddle English (as a verb): perhaps from the base of Swedish dialect puta ‘be inflated’.