Crossword clues for pouter
pouter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pouter \Pout"er\ (-[~e]r), n.
One who, or that which, pouts.
[Cf. E. pout, and G. puter turkey.] (Zo["o]l.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who habitually pouts; a sourpuss 2 A breed of pigeon that inflates its crop
WordNet
n. someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression [syn: sourpuss, picklepuss, gloomy Gus]
one of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out [syn: pouter pigeon]
Wikipedia
The Pouter pigeons are domesticated varieties of the rock dove, Columba livia, characterized by a very large, inflatable crop. They are kept as ornamental or fancy breeds, valued for their unusual appearance. There are many varieties of pouter with little in common except for the nature of the crop. The origin of the breed is unknown, but Pouters have been bred in Europe for at least 400 years.
Usage examples of "pouter".
Pitts the peeper, peaches, Parchester, plagiarism, Paula, principals, pouters, poisonous pits, and parades!
But to extend the hypothesis so far as to suppose that species, aboriginally as distinct as carriers, tumblers, pouters, and fantails now are, should yield offspring perfectly fertile, inter se, seems to me rash in the extreme.
And with a spasmodic bridling-up, she pointed to the bouffante which used to stand up stiffly round her withered old throat, and stick out in front like a pouter pigeon.
She gave him the Rosebud, the Pouter, Youth, Cousins Touching Tongues, the Deliquescent Virgin, the Needer.
Ivy Wrangton must have been seventeen, Wexford calculated, her face plain, puffy, young, her figure modishly pouter pigeon-like, her hair in that most unflattering of fashions, the cottage loaf.
He led them through the town, proud as a Pouter Pigeon to be their tour guide.
A younger daughter of one of the lesser Houses, she had always minded Merana of a pouter pigeon.
Frowning uncertainly, he remained bent until Daigian plucked at his red coat and led him away smiling, an amused pouter pigeon in dark blue slashed with white.
He was puffed up like a pouter pigeon with is professional pontifical pomposity reeling.
Humpty certainly rode in a very unorthodox fashion, pouter pigeon chest stuck out, hands held high, feet pointing down like a dancing master, showing a great patch of blue sky as he rose nearly a foot and a half out of the saddle over every fence.
I carefully measured the proportions (but will not here give details) of the beak, width of mouth, length of nostril and of eyelid, size of feet and length of leg, in the wild stock, in pouters, fantails, runts, barbs, dragons, carriers, and tumblers.