Crossword clues for moue
moue
- Displeased expression
- Sulky expression
- Small grimace
- Wry expression
- Disdainful grimace
- Small grimace or pout
- Pouty puss
- Look of displeasure
- Pouting puss
- Pouter's expression
- Petulant pout
- Look of distaste
- Expression of a pouter
- Down in the mouth look
- Disdainful pout
- Sourpuss's appearance
- Sour look, from the French
- Sour expression
- Pouty grimace
- Pout: French
- Milton's word for "grimace"
- Manifestation of sulkiness
- Little pouty face
- Insolent pout
- Grimacing look
- Down-in-the-mouth look
- Annoyed expression
- Pouting face
- Pouty expression
- Grimace of distaste
- Pained look
- Pouting grimace
- Sullen look
- Pouty look
- No happy face
- Pouting look
- Unhappy face
- Vexed look
- Sourpuss's look
- Sulker's expression
- Peeved pout
- Silent "ick"
- Pouting expression
- A disdainful pouting grimace
- Wry face
- Pouter's look
- A little grimace
- Little grimace
- Petulant expression
- Pained expression
- Expression of distaste
- Make a face
- Pouty face
- Sullen expression
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pout," 1850, from French moue "mouth, lip, pout," from Old French moe, perhaps from Middle Dutch mouwe, with the same senses, but this could as easily be from French. As a verb from 1909.
Wiktionary
n. A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness. (from 19th c.)
WordNet
Usage examples of "moue".
A striped, tawny cat sat on one of her knees, while a gray bird fluttered at her finger and she made playful pecking moues at it.
And at last at a reasonable distance, staying himself, he began more solemnly a long and tedious oration, after his manner, using in the deliverie thereof, many gestures and signes, mouing his hands, turning his head and body many wayes, and after his oration ended, with great show and reverence and submission returned backe to shoare again.
In stead of eyes two burning lampes she setIn siluer sockets, shyning like the skyes,And a quicke mouing Spirit did arretTo stirre and roll them, like a womans eyes.
Much was he moued with her piteous plight,And low dismounting from his loftie steede,Gan to recomfort her all that he might,Seeking to driue away deepe rooted dreede,With hope of helpe in that her greatest neede.
Arriuing there, as did by chaunce befall,He found the gate wyde ope, and in he rode,Ne stayd, till that he came into the hall:Where soft dismounting like a weary lode,Vpon the ground with feeble feete he trode,As he vnable were for very needeTo moue one foote, but there must make abode.
A striped, tawny cat sat on one of her knees, while a gray bird fluttered at her finger and she made playful pecking moues at it.
And the night-fillies flanking them pouted and made moues at them, and they were fairly catapulted into the midst of a pavilion of wine-dark silk, beyond whose unstirring folds showed the flat black horizons of the Shadowland.
His mouth turned down in one of those sad-sack moues, and he said with boyish hurt, "Methought you favored the longhouse now 'tis nigh complete.