sourpuss

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sourpuss

1. A very grumpy, scowling, ill-tempered expression, especially one in which the nose is wrinkled up and the mouth turned down in a frown. His face contorted into an awful sourpuss as he read the review of his performance in the play. What's with all the sourpusses in here? I know we lost, we put up a heck of a fight against the top team in the country!
2. Someone wearing such an expression or having such a mood. Don't be such a sourpuss, Glen. It's not the worst thing that could have happened! I thought the boss was an awful sourpuss when I first started working here, but she's actually really friendly and approachable.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

sourpuss

(ˈsɑʊɚpʊs)
n. a grouchy or frowning person. (see also picklepuss.) What a sourpuss! He makes King Kong look sweet.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • sour
  • sour as vinegar
  • (as) sour as vinegar
  • vinegar
  • give (one) a bloody nose
  • take (something) on the nose
  • take it on the nose
  • picklepuss
  • turn (one's) nose up at (someone or something)
  • turn your nose up at something
References in periodicals archive
Victoria was branded a 'sourpuss' over her expression at the May 19 2018 royal wedding
The accountant retrieves the originals, takes photocopies, and I head back to Sourpuss, the lobby forebodingly faineant when you're clutching No.
to sourpuss the glee through which he trolls his simulated genitalia.
Old Scroogemacher is a sourpuss and tyrant to his workers who doesn't believe in Hanukkah--but three ghostly rabbis visit him that night and bring him wisdom and insights.
All you need is a little help but you get some hard-faced Cromwellian sourpuss who makes you beg.
The sweetest sourpuss we know, Bill Maher has often used his HBO political joust-and-jest show Real Time With Bill Matter, which starts a new season February 18, to champion gay fights and same-sex marriage.
The reaction of your other half, however, is that of a sourpuss. In fact, at times, you could declare that her beautiful brown eyes seem to take on a strange, greenish hue.
No one cares for a sourpuss, regardless of his other attributes.
But something weird happened this year: the sourpuss mantra might have been right for once.
Always an added bonus is to commit your "drop" while the boss is present so you can enjoy the pained expression on the old sourpuss's face.
Luckily, there are still enough certifiably mean people such as Bob Dole and Phil Gramm and Newt Gingrich occupying high national offices in this country to rally their sourpuss, grumpy, irreverent fellows to the cause and confront this threat to the republic.
Nunn was "blinded by ambition"; a coward who becomes "frightened" in political battle; a war-wimp whose military service "was limited to six months of active duty in the Coast Guard, teaching swimming and physical training"; and even a sourpuss. "There is no place for levity in Sam Nunn's office," writes Tower, not known himself as Senator Laugh-a-minute.
It's all a far cry from the stereotype sourpuss drivers who once developed a reputation for careering off at high speed before passengers had reached their seats, sending pensioners flying and shopping bags spilling the full length of the vehicle.
Even Piers Morgan got involved, calling her a 'sourpuss.'
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