moue
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
Definition of moue
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness.
“[S]he looked at her face and made a moue in the glass; and never stopped for Laura’s answer to the questions which she had put.”
“She glanced aside to the rim of the looking-glass where his photograph was wedged, shuddered, and made a moue of distaste.”
“She made what I believe, though I wouldn't swear to it, is called a moue. Putting the lips together and shoving them out, if you know what I mean. The impression I got was that she was disappointed in Bertram, having expected better things […].”
“Why do you wear European clothes?" fumed Oscar de la Renta with a moue of disapproval and stamp of his bejewelled foot (probably).”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from French moue, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Doublet of mow ("grimace").
Words you can make from moue
10 playable · top: MEOU (6 pts)
Best play meou 6 points3-letter words
2 words2-letter words
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