pout (facial expression) (2025)

I am neither english speaking, nor french speaking. I would like to describe the facial expression when you look like your going to kiss someone and I don't even know if "pout" is the right word in english. When I look it up to translate to french it looks like it has only a negative meaning:

So what do I say when I want to say: "When the French speak they always look like they're pouting their lips" meaning it in cute way, not the "pull a face" meaning.

You're right in thinking that pout

be wrong in English. A pout is a habitual expression (i.e. her lips are naturally made like that) or an indicator of sulking, doubt, etc. So it's wrong for kissing, but right for pronouncing a French "u" (habitual).

Bonjour à tous,
Hello,

Si vous voulez parler de la pose "bouche en coeur" que les ados mettent sur leurs photos de profil,
cela s'appelle un "selfie duckface"... ...même en français. (registre familier)
Le mot "selfie" est courament employé en français (il y a même des articles de journaux ou wikipedia) depuis l'arrivée des réseaux sociaux,
par contre "duckface" est assez péjoratif à mon avis.

In France teenagers call it a "selfie duckface".
"Selfie" is used in french articles (newspaper, wikipedia), but I think "duckface" is really informal, even pejorative.

Keith Bradford said:

You're right in thinking that pout

might

be wrong in English. A pout is a habitual expression (i.e. her lips are naturally made like that) or an indicator of sulking, doubt, etc. So it's wrong for kissing, but right for pronouncing a French "u" (habitual).

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Pout in ordinary English is not a pout (lip) but a feeling the persons is expressing
himself in desagreement, in feeling very bad about something. So, "his lips would trobbling or would be trobbling, swelling, but not exactly in the physical sense, would be more perception! You would realize the "person would be very bothered, very upset and you would see it in his facial expression, like the swelling lips which not happens for real, but only in the "way we will see it". Well I am in trouble to understand the pout expression. Pout would be something that you realize in the other human being burt nothing is happens in the physical sense. You feel it but it is not exist in a physical worldl
Please help me.

I agree that to pout is an emotional reaction to a situation someone doesn't like, and won't engage on solving it.
A synonym is to sulk.

The physical manifestation of pouting can be in the mouth, the eyes, the body language, depending on the person and situation.

I might just describe it as putting on a pouty face.

Are you looking for a translation in French, @Proplanalto? Bouder, faire la moue or faire la tête?

Proplanalto said:

Well I am in trouble to understand the pout expression.

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Isn't it like beiço/bico or emburrado/amuado?