Word: puckerpuss
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...Hayley Mills) is a poor little orphan girl, the eleven-year-old daughter of a kindly, idealistic clergyman who has "gone to heaven to be with mother" and left her in the British West Indies without "anybody but the Ladies Aid" and her Aunt Polly (Wyman), a middle-aged puckerpuss who lives all alone in a vast Victorian mansion somewhere east of the Mississippi and does good to her fellow townsfolk whether they like it or not. When Aunt Polly hears of her brother-in-law's death, she sets her thin lips and grimly agrees to take...
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