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/ˈpəʊ.feɪst/ · adjective
(British) Wearing a particularly stern and disapproving expression; humourless; priggish..
Nae hassle man . . . I'll git oaf the skag, and Saughton's barry fir hash. It'll be a piece ay pish likesay . . . he sais, as he's escorted away by a po–faced labdick.
I mean, you would never guess if you came up from the South to Edinburgh in August that it is such a po-faced, humourless place, now would you?
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Po-faced means (British) Wearing a particularly stern and disapproving expression; humourless; priggish..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Nae hassle man . . . I'll git oaf the skag, and Saughton's barry fir hash. It'll be a piece ay pish likesay . . . he sais, as he's escorted away by a po–faced labdick.
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