Someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression.
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Examples for "pouter"
Examples for "pouter"
1The bulging chest often indicates no more than pouter-pigeon bluff temporarily put on.
2He swelled up like a pouter pigeon; and shook his fist at the door.
3The effect was frighteningly grotesque, like a scarlet pouter pigeon.
4Taken absolutely, instead of comparatively, immaturity designates a positive force or ability,-thepouter to grow.
5In a pouter, the furcula had not been lengthened proportionally with the increased length of the body.
1Nixon, of course is also the archetype of a politically successful sourpuss.
2That said, the downside is that you develop a sourpuss trait.
3She was a first-class sourpuss, and I hardly exchanged ten sentences with her.
4First, quietly, I act like a sourpuss, hunching up my shoulders and scowling.
5On other occasions, he's grumpy and scowling, all sourpuss and darkness.
1I think I care not for Gloomy Gus husband; too much troubles.
2He had no time to listen to pessimistic warnings from any Gloomy Gus of a Subconscious Self.
3No one likes a Gloomy Gus.
4American friend of Miss Sterling say, " Gloomy Gus!"
5You're a gloomy gus, Hodge.
6Allie, a Gloomy Gus by nature, has been expecting her father to lose his shit ever since he turned fifty-five.
7The captain, a sad-eyed, strong-featured American, was cartooned in the papers as " Gloomy Gus" (the pessimistic hero of the comic supplement).