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PO-FACED Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PO-FACED is having an assumed solemn, serious, or earnest expression or manner : piously or hypocritically solemn. How to use po-faced in a ...
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PO-FACED | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
A po-faced person has a face with a serious, disapproving, or empty expression: She remained po-faced all evening, even when the rest of us were in stitches at ...
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PO-FACED Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Po-faced definition: having an overly serious demeanor or attitude; humorless.. See examples of PO-FACED used in a sentence.
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po-faced, a. (ˈpəʊfeɪst) [Perh. f. poh int. or f. po n.3 + faced ppl. a.2, infl. by poker-faced adj.] Having or assuming an expressionless or impassive face, poker-faced; priggish, narrow-minded, or smug. So ˈpo-face.1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 191, I do not wish, when faced with exoticism, to ad...
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po-faced - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Adjective · (British) Wearing a particularly stern and disapproving expression; humourless; priggish. [from 1930s].
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po-faced, adj. meanings, etymology and more
OED's earliest evidence for po-faced is from 1934, in the writing of Constant Lambert, composer and conductor. po-faced is perhaps formed within English ...
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po-facedBritish & Australian, informalif someone is po-faced, they look very serious and unfriendly. The po-faced librarian refused to let me in without my card. Why does she always look so po-faced?
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Synonyms of PO-FACED | Collins American English Thesaurus
Synonyms for PO-FACED: humourless, disapproving, solemn, prim, puritanical, narrow-minded, stolid, prudish, strait-laced, intolerant, …
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PO-FACED - 19 Synonyms and Antonyms - Cambridge English
LACKING HUMOR AND NOT MEANT TO BE FUNNY. People sometimes think of the world of classical music as being po-faced, but the opposite is true. Synonyms ...
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Where does 'po-faced' come from etymologically, geographically ...
"po-faced" here means "poor-faced" and suggests a thin, gaunt, angular, or haggard face, in contrast to a full, fleshy, or round face.
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po-faced adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage ...
looking very serious and as though you do not approve of somebody/something. Word Origin1930s: perhaps from po 'chamber pot', influenced by poker-faced.
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“Po-faced” - Not One-Off Britishisms
Po-faced is an attitude characterized by some sort of combination of impassiveness, disapproval, and feigning of poverty or humility.
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po-faced
po-faced/ˈpəu feɪst; `poˌfest/ adj(Brit infml derog 口, 贬) with a too solemn or disapproving expression 一本正经的; 不以为然的.
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Septet (Chick Corea album)
The Penguin Guide to Jazz described it as "Po-faced and slight".
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Baadasss TV
It broke the mould of "po-faced" minority programming such as the BBC's Ebony.
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