What does sourhead mean?
Sourhead means One who is grumpy, negative, and bad-tempered..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
One who is grumpy, negative, and bad-tempered..
He is a ragamuffin, a useless, unadorned sourhead !
"Go ahead; I'll watch," he said. "Come on, sourhead. You'll sleep better afterward."
But if a reviewer making the rounds during such a fatal epidemic as has lately afflicted the theatre accurately reports that his patients are deathly ill and doomed, the same people will argue that he must be a chronic fault-picker and cynical old sourhead who should himself be attended by horses, to the accompaniment of a certain composition by Wagner.
In North Carolina, some newspapers observed with pride that their senator had achieved a national reputation, and one bragged that he did not behave like a “sourhead southerner” or a “bigot” but spoke like “an experienced jurist with a Harvard education."
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Sourhead means One who is grumpy, negative, and bad-tempered..
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He is a ragamuffin, a useless, unadorned sourhead !
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