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Pouter   /pˈaʊtər/   Listen
Pouter

noun
1.
Someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression.  Synonyms: gloomy Gus, picklepuss, sourpuss.
2.
One of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out.  Synonym: pouter pigeon.



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"Pouter" Quotes from Famous Books



... a time, accompanied by his undersized but stout court attendant, who looked more like a pouter-pigeon than a human being; and as they came, Bailiff Sparkheaver rapped on the judge's desk, beside which he had been slumbering, and mumbled, "Please rise!" The audience arose, as is the rule of all courts. Judge Payderson ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser

... between pouter and fantail pigeons, the pouter-race seemed to be prepotent through both sexes over the fantail. But this is probably due to weak power in the fantail rather than to any unusually strong power in the pouter, for I have observed that barbs also preponderated over fantails. This weakness ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin



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