sorehead
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A politician who is dissatisfied through failure, lack of recognition, etc.
American usage; Countable; Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Don't be a sorehead! Forgive, forget and get on with your life."
- "Of course, my competitive nature occasionally crossed the line into being a sorehead and poor loser."
- "2000, Nancy Capace, McGill, Ralph Emerson, entry in Encyclopedia of Tennessee, page 63, He antagonized them by printing that they were a bunch of "failures . . . chronic soreheads . . . hoodlums, and toughs who have no faith in themselves.""
- "No matter what the size or type of community, you'll have critics, and they are not always just soreheads who are unhappy when a team loses."
- "In most of these areas there was improvement between 1920, the year of the second Farmer-Labor ballot and the last election in which the coalition was able to use sorehead tactics, and the special senatorial election of 1923."
- "Officials walked a tightrope because disappointed voters could join or, if need he, form an opposing coalition, and they could cozy up to "soreheads" who were encouraging merger with Chicago."
Etymology
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- American usage
- Derogatory