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Killjoy
//ˈkɪlˌd͡ʒɔɪ// noun
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Noun
- 1 A person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun. derogatory
"“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....”"
- 2 someone who spoils the pleasure of others wordnet
Etymology
From kill + joy, first attested in 1776.
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