po-faced

(British & Australian informal)

if someone is po-faced, they look very serious and unfriendly The po-faced librarian refused to let me in without my card. Why does she always look so po-faced?

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Crabtree	['kræbtri:]
Patten	['pætn]
Adelaide	AD-ə-layd (English), ah-de-LIE-de (Italian), ə-də-LIED (Portuguese)	English, Italian, Portuguese
Ji-Eun	jee-uwn	Korean
Thierry	tee-e-REE	French
Roma (2)	-	Various