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sourpusses

sourpusses is the plural of sourpuss.

sourpusses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sourpuss.

Meaning of sourpuss

Noun

sourpuss (plural sourpusses)

  1. (informal) A person who is habitually gloomy, sullen or miserable; a grouch; a scowling person.
    • [Katara (Mae Whitman):] Guys, I think these scams have gone far enough. If you keep doing them, something bad is gonna happen.
      [Toph (Jessie Flower):] Could you for once stop being such a sourpuss and just lighten up.
      [Katara:] Oh, I'm sorry, you think I should be more like you? Like some wild...2007 November 2, Joshua Hamilton, “The Runaway” (8:24 from the start), in Giancarlo Volpe, director, Avatar: The Last Airbender, season 3 (Book Three: Fire), episode 7, spoken by Katara and Toph...

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Questions about sourpusses

What is sourpusses the plural of?
Sourpusses is the plural of sourpuss.

Words near sourpusses in the dictionary

  1. sournesses
  2. sourplum
  3. sourplums
  4. sourpuss
  5. sourpussed
  6. sourpusses
  7. sourpussing
  8. sours
  9. sours on
  10. soursap
  11. soursaps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sourpusses (page history and authors); sourpuss (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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