killjoy

noun
/ˈkɪlˌd͡ʒɔɪ/CA

Etymology

From kill + joy, first attested in 1776.

  1. derived from jöir
  2. inherited from joyen
  3. derived from gaudium
  4. derived from gaudia
  5. derived from joie
  6. inherited from joye
  7. compounded as killjoy — “kill + joy

Definitions

  1. 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA