killjoy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 21
- Words With Friends
- 24
- Letters
- 7
/ˈkɪlˌd͡ʒɔɪ/
(US)
Definition of killjoy
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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[.]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From kill + joy, first attested in 1776.
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