pouter

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression
noun one of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out

From pout + -er.

Persis herself was like a pouter pigeon strutting and preening her high breast. — What Will People Say? A Novel, Rupert Hughes
MARION: Ti trema un poco il cuore? (In disdain she saunters away, plump as a pampered pouter pigeon, humming the duet from Don Giovanni.) — Ulysses, James Joyce
Look at him!” Swithin Forsyte, tall, square, and broad, with a chest like a pouter pigeon’s in its plumage of bright waistcoats, came strutting towards them. — The Forsyte Saga - Complete, John Galsworthy

sourpuss, picklepuss, gloomy Gus

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