Difference between Brood and Pout

What is the difference between Brood and Pout?

Brood as a verb is to keep an egg warm to make it hatch. while Pout as a verb is to push out one's lips.

Brood

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To keep an egg warm to make it hatch. To protect. To dwell upon moodily and at length.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time. The children in one family.

Example sentence: If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Pout

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One's facial expression when pouting.A fit of sulking or sullenness.Shortened name of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).One's facial expression when pouting.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To push out one's lips.To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.To say while pouting.To shoot poults.

Example sentence: I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.

We hope you now know whether to use Brood or Pout in your sentence.

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