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spoil-sport

spoil-sport is the alternative form of spoilsport.

Meaning of spoilsport

Noun

spoilsport (plural spoilsports)

  1. Someone who puts an end to others' fun, especially harmless fun.
    • I know I am a sad spoilsport, but it would make me wretched.1908, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter XIV, in A Room with a View, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC

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Forms of spoil-sport

pluralspoil-sports

Questions about spoil-sport

What is spoil-sport the alternative form of?
Spoil-sport is the alternative form of spoilsport.

Words near spoil-sport in the dictionary

  1. spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
  2. spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar
  3. spoil'd
  4. spoil-paper
  5. spoil-papers
  6. spoil-sport
  7. spoil-sports
  8. spoilability
  9. spoilable
  10. spoilage
  11. spoilages

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