po-faced

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Wearing a particularly stern and disapproving expression; humourless; priggish. UK
    — Nae hassle man . . . I'll git oaf the skag, and Saughton's barry fir hash. It'll be a piece ay pish likesay . . . he sais, as he's escorted away by a po–faced labdick.
  2. Poker-faced. UK

词形变化

more po-faced comparative most po-faced superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
po-face

词源

Uncertain, probably from po, abbreviated slang based on French pot de chambre (“chamber pot”), after the distasteful expression anyone would adopt upon being presented with a full one. Perhaps similarly from pooh; perhaps influenced by poker-faced. Also possibly “poor-faced”.
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