po-faced

po-faced

 (pō′fāst′)

adj. Chiefly British

Priggishly disapproving.

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[From po, chamberpot (a po-faced expression being likened to that of a person observing the contents of a chamber pot with disgust), from French pot de chambre, chamber pot : pot, pot + de, of + chambre, room.]

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po-faced

adj

(of a person) wearing a disapproving stern expression

[C20: possibly from po + poker-faced]

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po-faced

(ˈpoʊˌfeɪst)
adj.

Chiefly Brit. having an overly serious demeanor or attitude; humorless.

[1930–35]

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Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

po-faced - humorless and disapproving Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom humorless, humourless, unhumorous - lacking humor; "it was a humorless wink; a wink of warning"- Truman Capote

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po-faced

adjective humourless, disapproving, solemn, prim, puritanical, narrow-minded, stolid, prudish, strait-laced a politically-correct bastion of po-faced self-righteousness

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Translations

po-faced

[ˌpəʊˈfeɪst] ADJ → que mira con desaprobación, severo

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po-faced

adj (inf: = disapproving) → grimmig, mürrisch; a po-faced woman (= ugly) → eine Schrulle (inf)

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