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dampener
English
Etymology
dampen +? -er
Noun
dampener (plural dampeners)
- A device that moistens or dampens something.
- (figuratively) A discouraging event or remark.
Synonyms
- buzzkill, killjoy, spoilsport, party pooper; see also Thesaurus:spoilsport
Anagrams
- prenamed
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killjoy
English
Etymology
kill +? joy, first attested in 1776.
Pronunciation
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /?k?l?d???/
Noun
killjoy (plural killjoys)
- A person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun.
- 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "If you mean me, sir, I call you and every one else to the inspection of my professional life. As to Christian or unchristian, I repudiate your canting palavering Christianity; and as to the way in which I spend my income, it is not my principle to maintain thieves and cheat offspring of their due inheritance in order to support religion and set myself up as a saintly Killjoy...."
- December 10 2005, Sam Murphy in The Guardian, A sober thought
- Just in time for the party season, some old killjoys at the journal Medicine & Science In Sports & Exercise have released their findings on the effects on muscle of prolonged heavy alcohol intake (six weeks is prolonged, apparently). The bad news is that it seems too much boozing puts all that effort in the gym to waste - in the study, alcohol prevented the usual resistance-training-induced muscle response that leads to increased size and strength.
- 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch
Synonyms
- buzzkill, miserabilist, dampener, party pooper, spoilsport; see also Thesaurus:spoilsport
Translations
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- killjoys what the hells
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