sourhead

English

Etymology

From sour +‎ -head.

Noun

sourhead (plural sourheads)

1. 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."