horned pout

English

a horned pout

Alternative forms

• hornpout

Noun

horned pout (plural horned pouts)

1. A catfish native to the eastern United States, the brown bullhead, Ameiurus nebulosus.
   • 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Boston: Ticknor and Fields:

     At length you slowly raise, pulling hand over hand, some horned pout squeaking and squirming to the upper air.