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wet-blanketry

wet-blanketry noun: the discouraging attitude of a wet blanket.

Noun

wet-blanketry (uncountable)

  1. The discouraging attitude of a wet blanket.
    • Our suggestions that any surviving Americans would be likely to have their hands more than full at home was received as so much wet-blanketry. The Americans, they assured us, would never have allowed such a thing to happen in their country.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 202

Origin of wet-blanketry

From wet blanket + -ry.

Questions about wet-blanketry

What does wet-blanketry mean?
Wet-blanketry means the discouraging attitude of a wet blanket.
What part of speech is wet-blanketry?
Wet-blanketry is a noun.

Words near wet-blanketry in the dictionary

  1. wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometers
  2. wet-behind-the-ears
  3. wet-blanket
  4. wet-blanketed
  5. wet-blanketing
  6. wet-blanketry
  7. wet-blankets
  8. wet-bulb
  9. wet-bulb temperature
  10. wet-bulb temperatures
  11. wet-lab

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