English Dictionary

sorehead

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 アメリカ英語 軽蔑的

A person who has a tendency to be angry or to feel offended. / (derogatory, US, political slang) A politician who is dissatisfied through failure, lack of recognition, etc.

日本語の意味

怒りっぽく、些細なことで腹を立てやすい人 / 失敗や認知不足に不満を抱きやすい政治家（軽蔑的な意味で使われる）

Don't be such a sorehead—come join us for dinner and try to lighten up.

そんなにすぐに腹を立てる人にならないで、夕食に一緒に来てリラックスしてみて。

意味（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.

意味（2）

(derogatory, US, political slang) A 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.

意味（3）

(uncountable) 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.

意味（4）

(uncountable) 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.

soreheads （ plural ）