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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

apout en · ADJ

Etymology

From a- + pout.

Meanings

  1. (especially, not-comparable, of the lips or mouth) Protruding to form a pout.
    • Richie cocked his lips apout. 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, page 261:
    • 1892, Francis Thompson, “The Poppy” in Wilfrid Meynell (ed.), The Child Set in the Midst by Modern Poets, London: The Leadenhall Press, p. 186, With mouth wide a-pout for a sultry kiss
    • The bellydancer oozed towards our table, her cuplike navel apout. 1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 33, in Earthly Powers, Penguin, published 1981, page 226: