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iris lily
10-19-12, 5:53pm
"Po-faced" has been going around in my head today because my po-faced neighbor is putting in windows in his front facade and knowing him, they probably are not wood windows as the historic code requires.
Do you know what po-faced means without looking it up?
CathyA
10-19-12, 6:04pm
Poop-faced? :laff:
Mrs-M
10-19-12, 7:11pm
Originally posted by Iris Lily.
Do you know what po-faced means without looking it up?I've never heard of it before. Plain faced?
Mrs-M
10-19-12, 7:17pm
Edgar Allan Poe... sinister faced?
Mrs-M
10-19-12, 7:27pm
Smug faced?
ApatheticNoMore
10-19-12, 7:32pm
ghetto?
Mrs-M
10-19-12, 7:38pm
Determined faced?

Unabashed faced?
awakenedsoul
10-19-12, 7:49pm
Stone faced?
Jilly
10-19-12, 7:49pm
Pretending to be poor when you are not?
Alan
10-19-12, 7:51pm
My grandmother used that expression. I think she reserved it for people who 'put on airs'.
JaneV2.0
10-19-12, 8:09pm
I don't take instruction well. Urban Dictionary is your friend.
iris lily
10-19-12, 9:43pm
It's not ghetto or urban at all. I remember it from British novels. It describes someone who is sour faced, unhappy.

My neighbor is a po-faced jerk. Last week he pushed his sour face out of his front door and chided me for talking too loudly on the sidewalk. I wasn't even in front of his house.
Ok granted, I was having a spirited conversation with other neighbors, but really, it wasn't even late at night, it was about 8:30 pm.

It's funny that this adjective "po-faced" long buried in my brain has surfaced for him, it's so fitting.
IshbelRobertson
10-20-12, 3:38am
It's still used here in the UK a lot as a great description about someone!
JaneV2.0
10-20-12, 12:42pm
According to this: http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/27/messages/824.html
its etymology might stem from "poker-face." Another theory I found was that it came from "pot de chambre," in other words an expression of smelling something unpleasant.

Re your neighbor, my grandmother used to opine "every neighborhood has one" about his type.
Mrs-M
10-21-12, 8:44am
I'll be keeping this saying r-e-a-l handy for future use. :)
Mrs-M
10-21-12, 9:40am
Originally posted by Iris Lily.
My neighbor is a po-faced jerk. Last week he pushed his sour face out of his front door and chided me for talking too loudly on the sidewalk. I wasn't even in front of his house.
Ok granted, I was having a spirited conversation with other neighbors, but really, it wasn't even late at night, it was about 8:30 pm.That's a po-tude on your part! (Po-attitude). LOL!
JaneV2.0
10-21-12, 11:29am
Interestingly, there's a lot of non-urban vernacular contained in the Urban Dictionary. It's often my first go-to.
Gregg
10-22-12, 1:05pm
Interestingly, there's a lot of non-urban vernacular contained in the Urban Dictionary. It's often my first go-to.

I find the same thing. Usually find just enough to prove my kid's theory that I'm Lameasaurus Rex.
herbgeek
10-22-12, 1:20pm
Lameasaurus Rex.

Thanks for the giggle of the day! :laff:
Gardenarian
10-22-12, 3:43pm
I've only read this expression in novels. I took it to mean someone who had a falsely innocent, butter-wouldn't melt-in-my-mouth look. Slightly smug. Just guessing from context I've read it in.