Meaning of poker-faced | Babel Free
Definitions
Wearing a poker face: studiously neutral in facial expression; giving nothing away.
Equivalents
Suomi
pokerinaamainen
Bahasa Indonesia
selamba
Examples
“John, in his most poker-faced manner, continued to explain⟳ the rules.”
“Harold Lloyd had had one or two minor comic brushes with railway trains, but the first man to produce⟳ real comedy from locomotives was the great poker-faced clown, Buster Keaton.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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