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kill-joy

kill-joy is the alternative spelling of killjoy.

Meaning of killjoy

Noun

killjoy (plural killjoys)

  1. (derogatory, occasionally endearing) 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...1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch

Forms of kill-joy

pluralkill-joys

Questions about kill-joy

What is kill-joy the alternative spelling of?
Kill-joy is the alternative spelling of killjoy.

Words near kill-joy in the dictionary

  1. kill-death ratios
  2. kill-deer
  3. kill-deers
  4. kill-devil
  5. kill-file
  6. kill-joy
  7. kill-joys
  8. kill-me-quick
  9. kill-off
  10. kill-offs
  11. kill-priest

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