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名詞

poutiness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being pouty.
   • 1853, John Pierce Brace, The Fawn of the Pale Faces, New York: D. Appleton, Chapter 18, p. 144,^[1]

     The rose may leave your cheek, the rich, red poutiness of your lip may fade into whiteness, the large and lustrous eye may grow languid in its hidden grief, but the soul will not lose its tyrant passion.

   • 1921, Arthur Stringer, The Wine of Life, New York: Knopf, Chapter 2, p. 23,^[2]

     the over-full upper lip which left a somewhat incongruous impression of child-like poutiness upon her face

   • 2016, Shobha Rao, “The Road to Mirpur Khas” in An Unrestored Woman, London: Virago, p. 174,^[3]

     She didn’t talk to me for the rest of the night. And though I laughed at her poutiness, in the end she was right […]