killjoy
noun/ˈkɪlˌd͡ʒɔɪ/CA
Etymology
Definitions
A person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun.
- 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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