Pouter

Definition: Pouter

Pouter

Noun

1. (informal) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression.

2. One of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out.

Date "pouter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1858. (references)

Synonyms: Pouter

Synonyms: gloomy Gus (n), picklepuss (n), pouter pigeon (n), sourpuss (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Pouter

English words defined with "pouter": Powter. (references)

"Pouter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pouter" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Expression using "pouter": pouter pigeon. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "pouter": pouter-pigeon.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "pouter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pëllumb i butë (trumpeter), njeri turivarur. (various references)

Arabic		‏سمك (fish, gudgeon, pisces, roach, snapper), ‏المبوز, ‏البوتر نوع من الحمام. (various references)

Bulgarian		гълъб с голяма гуша, недоволник (dissenter, grumbler, malcontent, squealer), нацупен човек (grouch). (various references)

French		boutant. (various references)

German		Kropftaube. (various references)

Greek		σκυθρωπάζων (scowler, sulker). (various references)

Hungarian		bögyös galamb. (various references)

Manx		pootchagh (pouch-like, poutish), calmane mooar-chleeauagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		outerpay

Portuguese		pomba-papo-de-vento. (various references)

Russian		недовольный человек (malcontent), зобастый голубь (cropper). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		golub gušan. (various references)

Spanish		paloma buchona. (various references)

Swedish		kroppduva, krävduva. (various references)

Turkish		somurtkan tip, kursağını şişiren güvercin (pouter pigeon), kafasını şişiren balık (pout). (various references)

Ukrainian		невдоволена людина (malcontent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pouter": pouters. (additional references)
	Words ending with "pouter": spouter. (additional references)
	Words containing "pouter": spouters. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pouter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bouter, gouter, jouter, Oputu, paufer, peater, peuter, Peuterey, Phuture, poete, pofter, poite, pooftah, pooter, Popter, poter, Potger, potur, poture, potzer, poucher, pouder, pouer, pouper, pouve, powte, Prorutori, Proute, prouten, pueter, puter, Putera, putere, Putzer, puxter, Wouter. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pouter" (pronounced pou"ter)
4	p ou" t er	powter.
3	-ou" t er	doubter, outer, scouter.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: roupet, troupe, uptore.
	Words within the letters "e-o-p-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: erupt, outer, outre, repot, route, toper, trope.
	-2 letters: euro, pert, poet, pore, port, pour, pout, pure, repo, rope, rote, roue, roup, rout, tope, tore, tour, trop, true.
	-3 letters: ope, opt, ore, ort, our, out, per, pet, pot, pro, pur, put, rep, ret, roe, rot, rue, rut, toe, top, tor, tup, upo.
	-4 letters: er, et.
	Words containing the letters "e-o-p-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: petrous, posture, poulter, pouters, poutier, proteus, spouter, trouped, trouper, troupes.
	+2 letters: apterous, computer, eruption, eutrophy, outcaper, outpower, outpreen, outpress, outprice, paroquet, polluter, postured, posturer, postures, poulters, protrude, proudest, resprout, roupiest, spouters, sprouted, superhot, troupers, uprooted, uprooter, upstroke, uptowner.
	+3 letters: computers, corpulent, corrupted, corrupter, croupiest, dipterous, eruptions, eurytopic, eutrophic, importune, imposture, mousetrap, opportune, outcapers, outpoured, outpowers, outprayed, outpreach, outpreens, outpriced, outprices, outspread, overtrump, paroquets, peculator, petroleum, pirouette, polluters, posturers, pothunter, poulterer, poultries, proestrus, profluent, prosateur, prosecute, proteuses, protruded, protrudes, proustite, pterosaur, purported, recompute, resprouts, sporulate, superport, supersoft, supported, supporter, thereupon, turophile, underplot, unstopper, upholster, uppermost, uprooters, upstrokes, uptowners.
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