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Sorehead
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- 1 A person who has a tendency to be angry or to feel offended. countable, uncountable
"Don't be a sorehead! Forgive, forget and get on with your life."
- 2 someone who is peevish or disgruntled wordnet
- 3 A politician who is dissatisfied through failure, lack of recognition, etc. US, countable, derogatory, uncountable
"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."
- 4 Infection in sheep by the nematode Elaeophora schneideri; elaeophorosis. uncountable
"And sometimes, the bugs themselves are the predators, the killers and consumers of elk. I think of the green-headed horsefly and its bloody conspirator, the sorehead roundworm—Elaeophora schneideri."
- 5 Fowlpox. uncountable
"Sorehead is a prevailing trouble in Hawaii, but I am convinced that much sorehead, if not all of it, can be averted if we keep our chicks off the ground until they are at least three months old."
Etymology
From sore + head, perhaps specifically from the simile like (or mad as) a bear with a sore head.
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