"po-faced" meaning in English

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        "Wearing a particularly stern and disapproving expression; humourless; priggish."
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        "Poker-faced."
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        "(British) Poker-faced."
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpəʊ.feɪst/"
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  "word": "po-faced"
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  "word": "po-faced"
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