sourhead

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English

Etymology

From sour +‎ -head.

Noun

sourhead (plural sourheads)

One who is grumpy, negative, and bad-tempered.
- 1932, A. E. Field, Sydney Spencer, Peaks, passes and glaciers, page 247:
  He is a ragamuffin, a useless, unadorned sourhead !
- 1948, Thomas M. Aumack, Rivers of rain:
  "Go ahead; I'll watch," he said. "Come on, sourhead. You'll sleep better afterward."
- 1948, George Jean Nathan, The Theatre Book of the Year: A Record and an Interpretation:
  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.
- 2009, Karl E. Campbell, Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers:
  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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