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Poker-faced
Wearing a particularly stern and disapproving expression; humorless; priggish
disapproval If you describe someone as po-faced, you think that they are being unnecessarily serious about something. Coltrane took a rather po-faced view of this. having an unfriendly disapproving expression on your face (Perhaps from po (19-20 centuries), from pot, influenced by poker-faced)
humorless and disapproving
po-faced

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    () Probably from po, abbreviated slang based on French pot de chambre (chamber pot), after the distasteful expression anyone would adopt upon being presented with a full one. Perhaps similarly from pooh; perhaps influenced by poker-faced. Also possibly “poor-faced”.

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