party pooper

noun

-ˈpü-pər How to pronounce party pooper (audio)
Definition of party poopernext
as in wet blanket
a person who spoils the pleasure of others a party pooper who insisted they turn the music down

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Recent Examples of party pooper Despite his literal change of heart, the Grinch continues to symbolize holiday party poopers everywhere. — Mike Miller, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024 Mosquitoes are, in fact, hellish little bugs that take the gold for summer’s biggest party poopers. — Katie Camero, SELF, 25 July 2024 Mearsheimer was a party pooper, defying what seemed to be common sense. — Richard K. Betts, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2010
Recent Examples of Synonyms for party pooper
  1. wet blanket
  2. drag
  3. crab
  4. bore
  5. old maid
  6. killjoy
Noun
  • Misty is a bit of a wet blanket, so Callie drugs her with some cold medicine in her drink; soon, she’s passed out on the sofa.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Assassin's Creed 3 After a whole trilogy led by the suave Ezio, Assassin's Creed III's Connor felt like a wet blanket.
    — John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of wet blanket
Noun
  • Between voluminous drags, Skarsgård’s Philip is complaining about his wife’s bitter reaction to discovering his infidelity.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
  • To that end, the facility can now help evaluate a bike's drag and lift, as well as cooling efficiency.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of drag
Noun
  • More than two dozen crabs were involved in the feeding frenzy, including one that appeared to have gotten inside the jellyfish and was eating its way out.
    — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The Lowcountry Boil — with crab legs, corn, and shrimp and lots of Old Bay seasoning — is worth the price, too.
    — Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of crab
Noun
  • In the rush to create newer, faster, more monetizable technologies — and to enable the kind of corporate empires whose chief executives stood beside Donald Trump at his inauguration — privacy and safety regulations seemed like a bore.
    — Zeynep Tufekci, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Again, the temperature rose far earlier than expected, and the KTB team was also surprised to find that the rock at this depth was not solid, and large amounts of fluid and gas were pouring into the bore hole to complicate the effort further.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Feb. 2025
Definition of bore
Noun
  • In contrast to the depictions of suffragists as dowdy old maids, the woman portrayed in this postcard is conventionally attractive and fashionably dressed.
    — Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
  • As fans have known since Bridgerton’s first season finale, Whistledown is none other than Penelope Featherington—the clever wallflower (played with verve and empathy by Nicola Coughlan) who has languished long enough without nuptial prospects to be considered an old maid.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 16 May 2024
Definition of old maid
Noun
  • Within the dog-button community, Horowitz is regarded as a killjoy.
    — Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Esther is the original feminist killjoy — acerbic, brilliant, obsessive, confrontational, deeply relatable.
    — Jillian Eugenios, NBC News, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of killjoy

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