sourpuss
A person who is habitually gloomy, sullen or miserableA person who is habitually gloomy, sullen or miserable; a grouch; a scowling person.
Recorded US: Speaker: Flame, not lame Recorder: Flame, not lame, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
» Tom is a sourpuss.
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1 senses(informal)A person who is habitually gloomy, sullen or miserable; a grouch; a scowling person.
Miesepeter, Sauertopf
someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression
Examples
4 sentencesTranslations
4 languagesOrigin
From sour (“bad-tempered”) + puss (“slang for mouth”).From sour (“bad-tempered”) + puss (“slang for mouth”).
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Forms
plural: sourpusses| Singular | sourpuss |
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regular
Synonyms
3 synonyms- someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression:picklepussgloomy Guspouter
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.