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ˈsore-head, a. and n.
Also sorehead.
[See sore a.1 9.]
A. adj. Irritable or out of temper ‘like a bear with a sore head’; discontented, dissatisfied.
1862Major Jack Downing vii. (1867) 61 [He] sed it done very well for some sore-hed Dimmycrat. 1902Academy 22 Mar. 291/1 This is sore-head philosophy.
B. n.
a. U.S. political slang. A dissatisfied or disappointed politician.
1862Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 16 Oct. (Thornton), What will the ‘sore-heads’ say now? 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 402 Each led by a little faction of sore-heads, desperate and reckless. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. iii. lxiii. II. 458 Some discontented magnate objects and threatens to withdraw... If such a ‘sore-head’ persists, a schism may follow.
b. slang (chiefly N. Amer.). A discontented, dissatisfied person, a malcontent; a mean, niggardly person.
1848Weekly Argus (Albany, N.Y.) 12 Aug. 253/3 As no other selection could be supposed so well to represent such a conventicle of ‘sore heads’, it is perhaps quite as well it sho'd take that direction as any other. 1912J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk., Sore-head, a person who sees trouble and wickedness in everything. 1916C. J. Dennis Songs of Sentimental Bloke 130 Sore-head, a curmudgeon. 1934J. T. Farrell Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan iv. 61 ‘You damn Kike, you got too many horseshoes,’ a sore-head said as Davey raked in the pot. 1939T. Wolfe Web & Rock ii. 36 We thought he was a man, but he turns out to be just a little sore-head. 1964L. Nkosi Rhythm of Violence ii. i. 23 Mary..You two are not to drink until the others arrive! Jimmy Rubbish! We have priority claims! Mary..Soreheads! What makes you think you have priorities over others! 1978M. Puzo Fools Die xx. 226, I was holding court with a lot of my customers, who were all telling me what a bunch of shit the whole business was, caused by a few soreheads.
So sore-headed a. = sore-head a.; hence soreˈheadedly adv., soreˈheadedness.
1844Hood Tale of Temper 53 No bear, *sore-headed, could be more cantankerous. 1888Pall Mall G. 19 Dec. 2/1 The men are dissatisfied and ‘sore-headed’.
1883Ibid. 8 Jan. 3 *Soreheadedly punctilious about the proper respect paid them.
1860Marysville (Calif.) Appeal 31 Mar. 2/2 The patriots of the Customs House [are] suffering from the *sore-headedness which so often follows an unsuccessful attempt at ascendency in the political scale. 1885W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 515 The gossip and the pecking and the sore-headedness of country towns. |