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killjoy

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkɪlˌd͡ʒɔɪ/

noun

Etymology: From kill + joy, first attested in 1776.

  1. 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.