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Significados de pouter em inglês

Someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression.

One of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out.

Uso de pouter em inglês
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The bulging chest often indicates no more than pouter-pigeon bluff temporarily put on.
Certain Success
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He swelled up like a pouter pigeon; and shook his fist at the door.
The Scotch Twins
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The effect was frighteningly grotesque, like a scarlet pouter pigeon.
Gather, Darkness!
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Taken absolutely, instead of comparatively, immaturity designates a positive force or ability,-thepouter to grow.
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ed...
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In a pouter, the furcula had not been lengthened proportionally with the increased length of the body.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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There are styles demanding that beginning at the neck you should curve out, like a pouter pigeon.
Idle Ideas in 1905
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The pouter-pigeon would take possession, remake the committees, and, practically speaking, thereby remake the legislation of that Congress.
The President: A Novel
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Farmer Green calls them pouter pigeons.
Seven O'Clock Stories
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The girl looked long at him, looked with clear, calm eyes until the old man's pouter-pigeon effect disappeared.
The Plunderer
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Those old fellows puffed up like pouter pigeons, and giggled and primped like a lot of school girls!
The Lady of the Decoration
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In the time of Aldrovandi, no doubt the more the pouter inflated his crop, the more he was valued.
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume...
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It was then the pouter-pigeon chieftain moved that the Senate organization be given over to him and his fellows.
The President: A Novel
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We loose the pouter, the tumbler is forgot, and we get slaty-gray men and women ruled by ruffed Jacobins.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 / Little J...
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Sheriff Lawley had on his stiffest professional air and Si Hardscrabble's chest was puffed out like a pouter pidgeon.
The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise
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He would strut about the campus as proudly as a pouter-pigeon, never realizing, apparently, that we were laughing at him.
Reveries of a Schoolmaster
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He likes to be worshiped, and he's positively puffed up with pride like a pouter pigeon because he's going to marry Doris.
Glory of Youth
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