- 1愛記恨的人、輸不起又擺臉色的人（美式，偏老派）。現在比較常說 sore loser。注意不是「頭痛的人」。
A sorehead is someone who is angry and unpleasant in a way that is out of proportion — usually because they lost something, or did not get what they wanted, and cannot let it go. The key idea is not just anger; it is sulking anger, the kind that spoils things for everyone around. A person who loses a game and then complains all evening about the referee is a sorehead. This is an American word, and it is old-fashioned now. Younger speakers are more likely to say "sore loser" (for the game situation) or "grouch" (for someone permanently bad-tempered). You will still meet sorehead in older novels, in newspapers writing about , and from older people. It is insulting but not a strong swear — the tone is , like calling someone a baby about it. Notice the related use of "sore" on its own: in American English, "he's still sore about it" means he is still upset and resentful. That sense of sore, not the pain-in-your-body sense, is the one hiding inside sorehead.
組成sore (in the American sense of upset and resentful, not physically painful) + head (standing for the person). It probably comes from the old saying "like a bear with a sore head" — an animal in pain that lashes out at anyone nearby.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
soreheadnoun
- 1
A person who has a tendency to be angry or to feel offended.
- Don't be a sorehead! Forgive, forget and get on with your life.
- Of course, my competitive nature occasionally crossed the line into being a sorehead and poor loser.
- 2
derogatoryA politician who is dissatisfied through failure, lack of recognition, etc.
- 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.
- Officials walked a tightrope because disappointed voters could join or, if need he, form an opposing coalition, and they could cozy up to "soreheads" who were encouraging merger with Chicago.
- 3
Infection in sheep by the nematode Elaeophora schneideri; elaeophorosis.
- 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.
- 2012, D. G. Pugh, N. (Nickie) Baird, Sheep and Goat Medicine, unnumbered page, Elaeophora schneideri is a filarial nematode that has been reported primarily in wildlife species in the western United States, including mule deer and bighorn sheep. Elaeophorosis (sorehead) is uncommon in sheep and goats.
- 4
Fowlpox.
- 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.
- 1922, University of Hawaii (Honolulu), Agricultural Dept, Annual Report of the Agricultural Department, Volume 4, page 103, The two principal causes of death among chicks has been sorehead and coccidiosis.
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