Complete Definition of "po-faced"

English

Etymology
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 attested �poor-faced�.

Adjective
po-faced

  1. Wearing a particularly stern and disapprove|disapproving expression; humorless; priggish.
  2. poker-faced.

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worldwidewords|qa/qa-pof1.htm

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