killjoy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
21
Words With Friends
24
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈkɪlˌd͡ʒɔɪ/ (US)

Definition of killjoy

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (derogatory)A person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun.
    ““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....””
    “What kill-joy have we here? […] I feel it in my bones some rascal is come to Galing, one that bringeth ill hap in his pocket and a shadow athwart the sun on this our day of festival.”
    “He stalked behind her simple narrative, a kill-joy parent, hasty, intolerant, keeping a special cane to enforce the authority of his sadistic God[.]”

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Etymology

From kill + joy, first attested in 1776.

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