pouter

"It's always fun to have a pouter in the department.

His voice was stiff and reluctant, but pouter than it had been.

But he's not a whiner, a pouter or a complainer.

Nurse, we have a pouter on our hands.

The Pouter is long limbed with an enlarged crop, and overall a large body.

There are many varieties of pouter with little in common except for the nature of the crop.

The effect was frighteningly grotesque, like a scarlet pouter pigeon.

He began to swell like a pouter pigeon.

Mary likened Clara to "an eagle among a flock of pouter pigeons."

Others represent less familiar forms such as a centaur, a pouter pigeon, and an anvil.

The man who came huffing and puffing in was the most pompous little pouter pigeon you could imagine.

At roll call the next morning, the Confederate guards swaggered and strutted like pouter pigeons.

He was puffed up like a pouter pigeon with is professional pontifical pomposity reeling.

Except for the initial bit of meddling that got him busted-for which he did apologize-he was pouter than we were."

Scientists, in pouter terms-and a heterogeneous lot.

"I didn't peg you for a pouter, Blake."

As she noted affectionately in her diary, he nodded his head over the teapot 'like an old pouter pigeon'.

Looking somewhat like a pouter pigeon in his space suit, the robust tycoon climbed aboard the larger of the two tanks.

The world's only super pouter (Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2001)

The English Pouter is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding.

Jasper Twittle," the little man said, puffing his chest out like a pouter pigeon.

He stuck his chest out like a pouter pigeon and seemed all set to carry on again, but Mr. Downs interrupted.

Barksdale puffed out the chest of his starched white shirt till he looked like a pouter pigeon.

This wight stared haughtily at Seaton for a moment, and began to swell up like a pouter pigeon.