Groaner
/ˈɡɹəʊnə(ɹ)/ noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who groans or complains.
"I don’t need to hear from groaners like you."
- 2 a person who groans wordnet
- 3 A work of extremely low quality, so bad as to inspire groaning. informal
"That movie was a real groaner."
- 4 A particularly egregious joke, especially a pun. informal
"From the cleverest repartee to the worst groaner, people use and respond to puns, but sometimes find them hard to define."
- 5 A whistling buoy. slang
Example
More examples"I don’t need to hear from groaners like you."
Etymology
From Middle English groner, gronar, equivalent to groan + -er.