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What would you call this action?

Post by HolyCow »

What would you call this action?

:3

Here's a picture of it:

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Post by mmotn »

I'd say either pouting or puffing your face like a blowfish.

That's a hard one =\
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Post by HolyCow »

That's exactly what Haruhi does... Only I can't find a way to put it in words >.<

I was tempted to use "Haruhi said with a :3"

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Post by Umiman »

pursed lips?

I'm pretty sure most animes refer to that as pouting.
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From the American Heritage Dictionary:

pout·ed, pout·ing, pouts

v. intr.

1. To exhibit displeasure or disappointment; sulk.
2. To protrude the lips in an expression of displeasure or sulkiness.
3. To project or protrude.

v. tr.

1. To push out or protrude (the lips).
2. To utter or express with a pout.

n.

1. A protrusion of the lips, especially as an expression of sullen discontent.
2. A fit of petulant sulkiness. Often used in the plural with the.


From Oxford Advanced Learner's Fourth Edition:

Pout: Push the lips or the lower lip forward, esp as a sign of annoyance or sulking.


So I guess it's pouting?

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Post by Kinny Riddle »

Ah, so that's pouting. I know what pouting means, but I never knew it also applies to that expression. And I wondered what was the right English word for that all this time, since Haruhi does it a lot for a tsundere.
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Post by nghtmre15 »

Pouting sounds about as accurate as you can get.
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Post by shaula »

Just to complicate things, an alternate expression would be "to make a moue." I'm no writer, but I've read a fair amount (in American English) and when special attention is to be called to that particular puffing-out-the-lips expression without additionally implying that the person is feeling sullen, moue is often used instead of pout. Using pout generally implies that the person is feeling sullen, while moue is specific to the expression itself. And for some reason, pout is generally used as a verb, even though it is also a noun, while moue is strictly a noun.

So, to describe the original example picture, I would propose a few phrasings:

1) The girl pouted.
2) The girl made a moue.
3) The girl made a pout.

#1 implies that the girl is puffing out her lips because she is feeling sullen.
#2 just says that the girl is making that expression. The reason for that (she could be sullen, thinking about something, doing it as a joke) would have to be explained by the context.
#3 is just like #2 and is totally correct, but for some reason I almost never see pout used this way.

Just my 2 cents.
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Post by Smidge204 »

Asking around, it has been described as a "fish face" - basically a pout. Might be used by the person when speaking sarcastically.

The :3 emote, however, is a "kitty face" or possibly a bunny if you add ears thusly: =:3

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Post by Dragoon »

Moue...

Moued? It's English... if we want a noun to be a verb, it's entirely legal as long as you follow the verb/consonant flow. Verbified nouns exist in standard usage, as much as it upsets English professors. Seems to happen a great deal with foreign nouns.

Plenty of nouns that are also verbs, already. Love, I love, to be loved...

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Post by cotton »

People really use the word moue? That's terrific! I'll be honest, I've never heard the word spoken out loud in my entire life. I've seen it in books, of course. It's nice to know sweet, old-fashioned words like moue are still hanging on in California of all places.

Yay for moue!
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Post by nghtmre15 »

Moooue. I was hoping the pronounciation would have a little more flair to it. Oh, well.
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Post by Haiyami »

pursing lips is more like tighting your jaw to me. I feel like as if its more ofa stern look than a pouty look. Though I could be wrong.
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