Someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression.
One of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out.
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Examples for "sourpuss "
Examples for "sourpuss "
1 Nixon, of course is also the archetype of a politically successful sourpuss .
2 That said, the downside is that you develop a sourpuss trait.
3 She was a first-class sourpuss , and I hardly exchanged ten sentences with her.
4 First, quietly, I act like a sourpuss , hunching up my shoulders and scowling.
5 On other occasions, he's grumpy and scowling, all sourpuss and darkness.
1 I think I care not for Gloomy Gus husband; too much troubles.
2 He had no time to listen to pessimistic warnings from any Gloomy Gus of a Subconscious Self.
3 No one likes a Gloomy Gus .
4 American friend of Miss Sterling say, " Gloomy Gus ! "
5 You're a gloomy gus , Hodge.
1 The bulging chest often indicates no more than pouter - pigeon bluff temporarily put on.
2 He swelled up like a pouter pigeon; and shook his fist at the door.
3 The effect was frighteningly grotesque, like a scarlet pouter pigeon.
4 Taken absolutely, instead of comparatively, immaturity designates a positive force or ability , - the pouter to grow.
5 In a pouter , the furcula had not been lengthened proportionally with the increased length of the body.
6 There are styles demanding that beginning at the neck you should curve out, like a pouter pigeon.
7 The pouter - pigeon would take possession, remake the committees, and, practically speaking, thereby remake the legislation of that Congress.
8 Farmer Green calls them pouter pigeons.
9 The girl looked long at him, looked with clear, calm eyes until the old man's pouter - pigeon effect disappeared.
10 Those old fellows puffed up like pouter pigeons, and giggled and primped like a lot of school girls!
11 In the time of Aldrovandi, no doubt the more the pouter inflated his crop, the more he was valued.
12 It was then the pouter - pigeon chieftain moved that the Senate organization be given over to him and his fellows.
13 We loose the pouter , the tumbler is forgot, and we get slaty-gray men and women ruled by ruffed Jacobins.
14 Sheriff Lawley had on his stiffest professional air and Si Hardscrabble's chest was puffed out like a pouter pidgeon.
15 He would strut about the campus as proudly as a pouter - pigeon , never realizing, apparently, that we were laughing at him.
16 He likes to be worshiped, and he's positively puffed up with pride like a pouter pigeon because he's going to marry Doris.
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