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adj
Wearing a particularly stern and disapproving expression; humourless; priggish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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adj
Poker-faced.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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adjective satellite
humorless and disapproving
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
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”.
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
