The word "sourpuss" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an informal way to describe someone who is pessimistic, bitter, or negative, usually because they are having a bad day. For example, "My brother was such a sourpuss when I asked him to help me with my homework."
As he reached in vain for an oxygen mask, he was struck by a thought: what would have happened to English language and literature if they had been invented in the southern hemisphere, say in Australia?Ignore the sourpuss Poms muttering that there would have been nothing much for anything to happen to.
Next time you go out on the razz though, Denker, please take that sourpuss Lady Mary with you.
Call me a sourpuss for not succumbing to crisp diction, chiselled cheekbones and oiled pecs (under a cassock!), but I want a Des Grieux who cannot take his eyes off his lover.
In many ways I fear sounding like a sourpuss for not sitting back and having a great big laugh.
The original sourpuss, it is clear that Colonel Meow will be missed by many.
Meanwhile Lou Lou remained a sourpuss and chewed on some humble pie as he continued to regret his decision to let Paul go last year.
So how has a computer-generated sourpuss reduced the nation's cinema-going public to snivelling wrecks?
The voyagers include a widow (Judi Dench), who is lost without her partner; a much divorced flirt (Celia Imrie); a sourpuss in need of a hip operation (Maggie Smith); a grizzled Don Juan Ronald Pickupp); a distinguished, gay former jurist (Tom Wilkinson); and a long-married couple, who have settled into fixed roles as aggressor (Penelope Wilton) and exasperated victim (Bill Nighy).
In "Ghost World," an eighteen-year-old sourpuss, Enid (Thora Birch), and her sarcastic friend Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) escape from high school with no particular goal in mind except to gaze on the fallen world around them.
(Well, maybe nearly the only sourpuss: Rihanna, in a Cleopatra wig and a startling sheer top that revealed a pierced nipple, stared impassively though the whole affair).
But now he's put at the center of a film a young woman who teases sourpuss clerks and comforts a crazy bum, whose grunts and snarls she understands.
