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po-faced

Main Entry:: po–faced
Pronunciation:: \ˈpō-ˌfāst\
Function:: adjective
Etymology:: perhaps from po chamber pot, toilet, from French pot pot
Date:: 1934

British : having an assumed solemn, serious, or earnest expression or manner : piously or hypocritically solemn

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