sorehead

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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. 2

   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.
   • 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. 3

   Infection in sheep by the nematode Elaeophora schneideri

   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.
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   1. 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.
      • Such ailments as sorehead and pip also took their toll. Children learned early not to throw watermelon rinds where the chickens could peck them: pecking watermelon rinds gave chickens sorehead.

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