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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
killjoy From the web:
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- what killjoy in tagalog
- killjoys what is the lady
- killjoys what is the j
- killjoys what the hells
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wetblanket
wetblanket From the web:
- what's wet blanket means
- what's wet blanket
- what does wet blanket mean
- what does wet saddle blanket mean
- what does wet blanket mean idiom
- what is wet blanket syndrome
- what does wet blanket mean urban dictionary
- what is wet blanket approach
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