Meanings
nounjoykiller (plural joykillers)
plural joykillers
- alternativeAlternative spelling of joy killer.
The fellow grinned. “You think I'm a joykiller, huh?”
2009, Monte Schulz, This Side of Jordan, →ISBN, page 252 more examples
The whole works seemed like a joykiller to us and so we stayed away.
1923, Frank Hobart Cheley, The Job of Being a Dad, W. A. Wilde Company, page 48“Hmpf. All right, joykiller. I'm fine, you know. I can close up without being scared. It's still daylight, Brody is next door.”
2009, Lauren Dane, “Laid Bare”, in A Brown Family Novel, volume 1, Penguin.
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