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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.
1934C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 191, I do not wish, when faced with exoticism, to adopt an attitude which can best be described by the admirable expression ‘po-faced’. We cannot live perpetually in the rarefied atmosphere of the austerer classics. 1937T. Rattigan French without Tears i. 11 What's he like, though, really? Po-faced, I suppose? 1951N. Balchin Way through Wood xvii. 239 You sounded po-faced on the telephone. 1958Economist 11 Oct. 133/3 That ‘middle class’ which Low used to symbolise by a po-faced woman in a big fur coat. 1965[see galumph v.]. 1967Listener 24 Aug. 232/2, I glimpsed [him]..being lightly grilled by a deliciously po-faced Joan Bakewell. 1973K. Giles File on Death iii. 75 Her po face. 1973Times 11 Dec. 5/3 We do not want to appear po-faced or ministry Scrooges, but on the other hand we should not like to see the country flooded with blazes of extravagant light. 1975Globe & Mail (Toronto) 1 Sept. 7/1 Ted Stuebing..had one of his minions come on the tube all po-faced Saturday night to say that CFTO couldn't let the press in because it would have cluttered up the production studio. |
