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In Cheaper By The Dozen (or its sequel; can't remember) the mother tells the girls that it is improper to make a 'depreciating moue'...or something to that effect.
My French dictionary gives the pronunciation as:
mu
where the /u/ is the kind of sound you get in fou.
As I understand it the vowel is placed very forward in the mouth (not back as in the English moo) and with somewhat pursed or pouting lips.
Almost like a less extreme version of the contortions that teenage girls make when they go eeeeeewh!
What is the correct pronunciation of moue? I've always read it as moo but that can't be right...
Saying moue results in one's face assuming a moue. There has to be a word for that, a physical variant of aural onomatopoeia.