Definitions for sorehead

sorehead sore·head

Spelling: [sawr-hed, sohr-]
IPA: /ˈsɔrˌhɛd, ˈsoʊr-/

Sorehead is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 324 anagrams from letters in sorehead (adeehors).

Definitions for sorehead

noun

  1. a disgruntled or vindictive person, especially an unsportsmanlike loser:

Origin of sorehead

1840-50; compare Scots sorehead a headache

Examples for sorehead

I guess if I had a woman like you I wouldn't be such a sorehead.

"Don't be a sorehead, Bill, just because you lost," put in Fatty Hendry.

And my Jimmie is going to work to get himself promoted and quit being a sorehead at his steady hours and all.

As for Rucker, who's waitin' on the table an' packin' in viands from the kitchen, he takes it as sullen as a sorehead dog.

Obviously he was a sorehead—had some kind of grudge against Stet.

"I know one 'sorehead,'" remarked Ray with a grimace as he felt of his wound.

sorehead: A politician who has reached for something that was not his, and missed.

We say that "knocking" is a sign of the "sorehead" and we sublimate criticism by saying that "every knock is a boost."

Hes been sneering and hollering like the sorehead he is, and its sure getting too much for me.

It took the sorehead feeling of wronged genius out of me for good and all.

Word Value for sorehead
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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