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It's almost embarrassing, but I do have one trick for taking portraits on commission. I carry one of these little bicycle horns in my pocket, and once in a while, when someone is sour-faced or stiff, I blow my horn. It sort of shatters the barriers. It's silly, but it works.
Elliott Erwitt

Meaning of "sour-faced" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SOUR-FACED

sour-faced  [ˌsaʊəˈfeɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOUR-FACED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sour-Faced is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SOUR-FACED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sour-faced in the English dictionary

The definition of sour-faced in the dictionary is bad-tempered and unfriendly.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SOUR-FACED


ashen-faced
ˌæʃ ənˈfeɪst
baby-faced
ˈbeɪbɪˌfeɪst
barefaced
ˈbɛəˌfeɪst
bold-faced
ˈbəʊldˌfeɪst
defaced
dɪˈfeɪst
defast
dɪˈfeɪst
defaste
dɪˈfeɪst
fresh-faced
ˈfrɛʃˌfeɪst
long-faced
ˌlɒŋˈfeɪst
melamine-faced
ˈmɛləˌmiːnˌfeɪst
pale-faced
ˈpeɪlˈfeɪst
round-faced
ˌraʊndˈfeɪst
shamefaced
ˈʃeɪmˌfeɪst
shitfaced
ˈʃɪtˌfeɪst
smooth-faced
ˌsmuːðˈfeɪst
stony-faced
ˌstəʊnɪˈfeɪst
straight-faced
ˌstreɪtˈfeɪst
undefaced
ˌʌndɪˈfeɪst
uneffaced
ˌʌnɪˈfeɪst
white-faced
ˈwaɪtˌfeɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOUR-FACED

sour
sour cherry
sour cream
sour gourd
sour grapes
sour gum
sour mash
sour milk
sourball
source
source code
source document
source language
source materials
source program
sourcebook
sourceless
sourcing
sourdeline
sourdine

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOUR-FACED

baldfaced
brazen-faced
double-faced
full-faced
hard-faced
hatchet-faced
Janus-faced
light-faced
moon-faced
multifaced
open-faced
pasty-faced
po-faced
poker-faced
red-faced
snotty-faced
spaced
square-faced
two-faced
unsurfaced
wheyfaced

Synonyms and antonyms of sour-faced in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sour-faced» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOUR-FACED

Find out the translation of sour-faced to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sour-faced from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sour-faced» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

酸酸的脸
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cara agria
570 millions of speakers

English

sour-faced
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खट्टा का सामना करना पड़ा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحامض الوجه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кислым лицом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sour- faced
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টক মুখবিশিষ্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

revêche
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Malu-malu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

vergrätzt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

酸っぱい顔をした
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

신 얼굴
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anget-ngadhepi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chua mặt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புளிப்பு முகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आंबटपणाचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ekşi suratlı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sour - faced
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kwaśny twarzy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кислим обличчям
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

acru - cu care se confruntă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ξινή -που αντιμετωπίζουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

suur -faced
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sura -inför
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sur - faced
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sour-faced

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOUR-FACED»

The term «sour-faced» is normally little used and occupies the 137.036 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SOUR-FACED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sour-faced

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QUOTES WITH «SOUR-FACED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sour-faced.
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Elliott Erwitt
It's almost embarrassing, but I do have one trick for taking portraits on commission. I carry one of these little bicycle horns in my pocket, and once in a while, when someone is sour-faced or stiff, I blow my horn. It sort of shatters the barriers. It's silly, but it works.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOUR-FACED»

Discover the use of sour-faced in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sour-faced and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Sour Faced Moon:
Rohini Lall. The Safi'rWI—“aced M0011 ROHINI LALL The Sour Faced Moon Rohini Lall $2] Q n. Front Cover.
Rohini Lall, 2013
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Morals Pointed and Tales Adorned: The Båuståan of Sa°dåi
With sweetness of tongue one may bear off the ball, Whereas the man sharp- mannered continually bears off bitterness; Learn to be sweet of tongue from Sa'di , And tell the sour-faced man to go and die in bitterness! tale 6 8 The sweet- and ...
Saʻdī, 1974
3
Confessions of a Wayward Catholic
Two days later, a red-faced Cigsam came to our desks with the sour-faced female boss. Cigsam had his head bowed. “You have something to say to these fine young men?” asked the sour-faced female executive. “Yes,” said Cigsam. “I want to ...
Frank Scoblete, 2013
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Shakespeare Lexicon
... glass-faced; good-faced; half- face; half-faced; ill-faced; lean-faced; old-faced; outface ; pale-faced ; paper-faced ; red-faced ; sad- faced; shame-faced; smooth- faced; sour-faced; sweet-faced; tallow-face; thin-faced; whey-face; white-faced.
Alexander Schmidt, 2007
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Saint Teresa of Avila: Devotions, Prayers, & Living Wisdom
“God save us from sour-faced saints!” she would say about the self-important clerics who felt it was their job to uphold orthodoxy while never having held the Holy One in their arms and rocked him all through the night, as she regularly did.
Mirabai Starr, 2007
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A comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary
2 to discuss, argue about, permasalah problem. pemasalahan and permasalahan problem. masalah II (coq) -> masya allah. masam I sour, acid, muka - a sour face; sour-faced. 2 sullen, surly. bermasam — muka sour faced, memasam to ...
Alan M. Stevens, 2004
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Language, Migration, and Identity: Neighborhood Talk in ...
Just as importantly, we also see that Bu Naryono's earlier representation of Bu Tobing∗ as unfriendly (Extract 5.4) is now given a behavioral description, namelythatof looking“sour-faced” (line 130). This adds tothe emergingsemi- otic registers ...
Zane Goebel, 2010
8
Captain Caution
The sour-faced officer took a quick step forward and swung the flat of his cutlass against Argandeau's upper arm. “Where is she, you swab?” he demanded. “She's ashore,”Marvin said quickly. “Is Captain Slade aboard your schooner?” “Slade!
Kenneth Roberts, 1999
9
The Aton Bird
From a safe distance, the person in charge of the kidnapping, a sour-faced woman who looked as though she had overdosed on nettle tea, told Jorden that he was being taken to a place of safety. For whose safety she omitted to mention.
Jane Palmer, 2008
10
A Child of the Jago
The table was guarded by a sour—faced man—just such a man as drove him from the window of the cake shop in Shoreditch High Street. Nobody else was there yet, and plainly the sour—faced man must be absent or busy ere the cake could ...
Arthur Morrison, Peter Miles, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOUR-FACED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sour-faced is used in the context of the following news items.
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Puppy with down-in-the-dumps face attracts millions of admirers
If you thought you were having a bad day, spare a thought for sour-faced mutt Earl, a puppy that looks grumpy all the time. Pictures of the peeved pup went viral ... «BT.com, Jul 15»
2
Celia Walden: 'People could save themselves the 15-buck entry fee …
That sour-faced old broad should be grateful. Of course people could save themselves the 15-buck entry fee and stay at home in front of a mirror, I think to myself ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Jimmy's Hall review: Time For The Talk
Lead by the permanently sour-faced Father Sheridan (Jim Norton), they are equal parts killjoys and unfeeling capitalists, never really fleshed out much beyond ... «National Post, Jul 15»
4
Working is good for you — even if it's unpaid, in a charity shop — or …
The position of the idle rich, whose sour-faced scions always seem to end up going to the bad, seems to indicate that this is an important factor. Biggs took two ... «Spectator.co.uk, Apr 15»
5
'Better Call Saul' Episode 6 - 'Five-O' Review
After all, this is the sour-faced expert hitman we all know too well from Breaking Bad, the man whose past with the police had merely been mentioned in passing. «Filmoria, Mar 15»
6
Move over Grumpy Cat; OKC's sour-faced kitty quickly taking over …
“She slowly got some followers and she had about 30,000 until someone did a Buzzfeed and that's when everything went crazy,” Bender said. Now, she's ... «kfor.com, Feb 15»
7
Hotel review: Hues Boutique Hotel, Dubai
The same can't be said of the somewhat sour-faced receptionist. We're told that it will take 15 minutes to “check with housekeeping” that our room is ready. «The National, Dec 14»
8
Aubrey Plaza talks starring in 'Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever': 'I …
Judging by Aubrey Plaza's trademark scowl in the production stills for "Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever," the "Parks and Recreation" star and the sour-faced ... «New York Daily News, Nov 14»
9
'X Factor' Review: Arena Auditions Leave Cheryl Cole Sour-Faced
In Saturday night's 'X Factor' the arena auditions continued, with a whole host of talented hopefuls receiving at least three nods from the judges and making it ... «Huffington Post UK, Sep 14»
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Luisa Zissman Blasts The Cast Of 'TOWIE' As 'Rude, Insecure And …
"When you see them at events they're sour-faced and not approachable." Say what you see Luisa, say what you see. Luisa is known for speaking her mind ... «Huffington Post UK, Sep 14»

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