喜樂美語
  1. 1噘著嘴的；一副賭氣的樣子（也可形容嘴唇往前嘟、看起來豐厚）

    Pouty is how we describe a face or a person when the lips are pushed out in a pout. Often it means someone looks sulky or a bit — a pouty child, a pouty look when a plan falls through. People also say pouty lips for lips that look full and pushed forward, the kind magazines treat as pretty, not angry. Same shape, two readings: mood versus looks. It can sound critical (“Don’t be pouty”) or just descriptive. Informal. It is an adjective, not a verb — the verb is pout. Younger speakers use it a lot about photos and about someone being sulky in a small, way; it is not a stiff or formal word.

組成pout + -y (the ending that turns a noun or verb into an adjective: “full of / like that”).

同家族的字

  • poutthe verb and noun this adjective is built from

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

poutyadj

  • 1

    Tending to pout; angry in a childish or cute way; showing mock anger. (of a person)

    • 1799, Cassandra Leigh Cook, Battleridge, London: Cawthorn, Volume 1, Chapter 5, p. 77, ‘My dear Doctor,’ said he, ‘this wrathful man thinks you have been unsuccessful, and is primed to be pouty; let us enjoy the pleasure of discovery by a little delay; […] ’
    • Long ago when Jade used to come for holiday visits, Margaret found her awkward and pouty, but now that she was grown up, she was pretty and a lot of fun.
  • 2

    Shaped into a pout; (of lips) protruding (often implying sulkiness or flirtiness). (of a mouth)

    • 1851, Donald Grant Mitchell (as Ik. Marvel.), Dream Life, New York: Scribner, Chapter 5, pp. 239-240, Was there ever a baby seen, or even read of, like that baby! […] he is a little pouty about the mouth—but such a mouth!
    • Those girls, who could have been her daughters, were beautiful. […] Their mouths were pouty little cupid’s bows.
  • 3

    Characterized by pouting. (of an action or quality)

    • Where other actresses offer us a sort of pouty boredom which yet seeks to flirt with the audience, Huppert presents severity, anger, and an irritation raised to the condition of nausea.
    • 2006, Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan, London: Granta, 2008, Chapter 27, p. 214, Only their full red lips bore similarity, the father’s bubbly wedges endowing him with a drag queen’s pouty glamour.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。