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"text": "1799, Cassandra Leigh Cook, Battleridge, London: Cawthorn, Volume 1, Chapter 5, p. 77,\n‘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; […] ’"
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"roman": "nacupen",
"sense": "angry in a cute way",
"word": "нацупен"
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"sense": "angry in a cute way",
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"sense": "angry in a cute way",
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"text": "1851, Donald Grant Mitchell (as Ik. Marvel.), Dream Life, New York: Scribner, Chapter 5, pp. 239-240,\nWas there ever a baby seen, or even read of, like that baby! […] he is a little pouty about the mouth—but such a mouth!"
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"ref": "1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 16, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, page 104",
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"text": "2006, Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan, London: Granta, 2008, Chapter 27, p. 214,\nOnly their full red lips bore similarity, the father’s bubbly wedges endowing him with a drag queen’s pouty glamour."
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"text": "He suffered on his journey, delivering a pouty soliloquy on hunger, cold, and wild beasts.",
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},
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"ref": "1981, Tony Morrison, Tar Baby, New York: New American Library, published 1983, page 72",
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},
{
"ref": "1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 16, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, page 104",
"text": "Those girls, who could have been her daughters, were beautiful. […] Their mouths were pouty little cupid’s bows.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Paul Beatty, chapter 6, in The Sellout, New York: Picador, page 84",
"text": "a pale brunette whose pouty Maybelline red lips put Scarlett O’Hara’s sneer to shame",
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{
"ref": "2002, Julian Barnes, Something to Declare, London: Picador, page 278",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "2006, Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan, London: Granta, 2008, Chapter 27, p. 214,\nOnly their full red lips bore similarity, the father’s bubbly wedges endowing him with a drag queen’s pouty glamour."
},
{
"ref": "2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, London: Fleet, page 157",
"text": "He suffered on his journey, delivering a pouty soliloquy on hunger, cold, and wild beasts.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Characterized by pouting. (of an action or quality)"
]
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nacupen",
"sense": "angry in a cute way",
"word": "нацупен"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "angry in a cute way",
"word": "pruilend"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry in a cute way",
"word": "nyrpistelevä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry in a cute way",
"word": "mököttävä"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "angry in a cute way",
"word": "mogorva"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "angry in a cute way",
"word": "barátságtalan"
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"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "angry in a cute way",
"word": "prunsch"
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"roman": "nadútyj",
"sense": "angry in a cute way",
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