Po-faced

Origin of: Po-faced

Po-faced

Po-faced means a humourless, disdainful or sour-faced demeanour and is British slang of unknown origin from the 1930s. The OED ventures that it might derive from poker-faced but does not substantiate it. Other sources maintain it has some connection to ‘po’ as in a chamber pot or toilet bowl, but no adequate explanation as to why or how is given.