Sourpuss

Definition: Sourpuss

Sourpuss

Noun

1. (informal) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression.

Modern Usage: Sourpuss

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	If you're not careful, all the children will dance around your window singing Sourpuss and Grumpyface and you don't want that, now do you? (Blackadder II; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Sourpuss

"Sourpuss" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sourpuss" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sourpuss

Modern Translation: Sourpuss

Language		Translations for "sourpuss"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		раздразнителен човек. (various references)

German		sauertopf, miesepeter (crankUS, grouch, misery, misery-guts, moaner), meckerziege (nag, nagger, ratbag). (various references)

Pig Latin		ourpusssay

Russian		зануда (dull beggar, old bat, pesterer, sickener). (various references)

Spanish		persona poco afable, persona desabrida. (various references)

Swedish		surpuppa (crank, grouch). (various references)

Ukrainian		кислотність (acidity). (various references)

Vietnamese		người quạu cọ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Sourpuss

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sourpuss": sourpusses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sourpuss" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saurus, sorjus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Sourpuss

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "o-p-r-s-s-s-u-u"
	-2 letters: usurps.
	-3 letters: pours, pross, roups, sorus, soups, sours, spurs, usurp.
	-4 letters: opus, ours, pour, pros, purs, puss, roup, sops, soup, sour, sous, spur, sups, suss, urus.
	-5 letters: ops, ors, our, pro, pur, pus, sop, sos, sou, sup, upo, ups.
	Words containing the letters "o-p-r-s-s-s-u-u"
	+2 letters: sourpusses.
	+3 letters: superscouts.
	+4 letters: spuriousness.
	+5 letters: apatosauruses, penuriousness, rapturousness, superstitious, supersurgeons.
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