poutyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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形容詞

pouty (comparative poutier, superlative poutiest)

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

   Synonyms: sulky, sullen

   • 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; […] ’

   • 1981, Tony Morrison, Tar Baby‎, New York: New American Library, published 1983, page 72:

     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!

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 16, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎, New York: Random House, page 104:

     Those girls, who could have been her daughters, were beautiful. […] Their mouths were pouty little cupid’s bows.

   • 2016, Paul Beatty, chapter 6, in The Sellout‎, New York: Picador, page 84:

     a pale brunette whose pouty Maybelline red lips put Scarlett O’Hara’s sneer to shame

3. Characterized by pouting. (of an action or quality)
   • 2002, Julian Barnes, Something to Declare‎, London: Picador, page 278:

     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.

   • 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad‎, London: Fleet, page 157:

     He suffered on his journey, delivering a pouty soliloquy on hunger, cold, and wild beasts.

同意語

• poutish

派生語

• poutily
• poutiness