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"
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.
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.
6There are styles demanding that beginning at the neck you should curve out, like a pouter pigeon.
7The pouter-pigeon would take possession, remake the committees, and, practically speaking, thereby remake the legislation of that Congress.
8Farmer Green calls them pouter pigeons.
9The girl looked long at him, looked with clear, calm eyes until the old man's pouter-pigeon effect disappeared.
10Those old fellows puffed up like pouter pigeons, and giggled and primped like a lot of school girls!
11In the time of Aldrovandi, no doubt the more the pouter inflated his crop, the more he was valued.
12It was then the pouter-pigeon chieftain moved that the Senate organization be given over to him and his fellows.
13We loose the pouter, the tumbler is forgot, and we get slaty-gray men and women ruled by ruffed Jacobins.
14Sheriff Lawley had on his stiffest professional air and Si Hardscrabble's chest was puffed out like a pouter pidgeon.
15He would strut about the campus as proudly as a pouter-pigeon, never realizing, apparently, that we were laughing at him.
16He likes to be worshiped, and he's positively puffed up with pride like a pouter pigeon because he's going to marry Doris.