"poutish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "pout + -ish",
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      "form": "more poutish",
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      "form": "most poutish",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1671, Caleb Trenchfield, “Of the choice of a Wife”, in A Cap of Grey Hairs for a Green Head, London: Henry Eversden, page 117",
          "text": "[…] those [women] that are sheepish, can very difficultly preserve themselves from being weather-born; and those that are waspish, are, as Solomon saith, a continual dropping; and the poutish are like a charnel-house, where sorrowful and glum silence make a solemn mourning:",
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          "ref": "1899, Frank Kinsella, chapter 4, in The Degeneration of Dorothy, New York: G.W. Dillingham, page 106",
          "text": "She was the most consummate mistress of the value of a shading of emphasis, an uplifted eyebrow, a tiny, poutish moue, or a dainty shrug of the shoulders, when used in conjunction with an unended sentence, in declaring and pointing an unspoken opinion.",
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          "text": "1913, Djuna Barnes, “‘Twingeless Twitchell’ and His Tantalizing Tweezers” in Alyce Barry (ed.) New York, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1989, p. 22,\n“How slow the city is in summer,” said Ikrima in that pretty, poutish way which always appeals to the biggest sort of men."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, K. G. Schneider, “The Outlaw Bride”, in Dave Eggers, editor, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 355",
          "text": "a poutish middle-class ire over my second-class status as a first-class taxpayer",
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          "ref": "1671, Caleb Trenchfield, “Of the choice of a Wife”, in A Cap of Grey Hairs for a Green Head, London: Henry Eversden, page 117",
          "text": "[…] those [women] that are sheepish, can very difficultly preserve themselves from being weather-born; and those that are waspish, are, as Solomon saith, a continual dropping; and the poutish are like a charnel-house, where sorrowful and glum silence make a solemn mourning:",
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          "ref": "1899, Frank Kinsella, chapter 4, in The Degeneration of Dorothy, New York: G.W. Dillingham, page 106",
          "text": "She was the most consummate mistress of the value of a shading of emphasis, an uplifted eyebrow, a tiny, poutish moue, or a dainty shrug of the shoulders, when used in conjunction with an unended sentence, in declaring and pointing an unspoken opinion.",
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          "text": "1913, Djuna Barnes, “‘Twingeless Twitchell’ and His Tantalizing Tweezers” in Alyce Barry (ed.) New York, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1989, p. 22,\n“How slow the city is in summer,” said Ikrima in that pretty, poutish way which always appeals to the biggest sort of men."
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