miseryguts

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noun

A miserable, negative person.

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Meanings

nounmiseryguts (plural miseryguts)
  1. colloquialA miserable, negative person.

    He was regarded standoffish or withdrawn or even as a miseryguts.

    2004, Ed Murfin, Sabbatical
    2 more examples

    You know, Jers, you've become one incredible miseryguts. A grumpy old granny. I mean, I'm offering you a hand, here.

    2005, Jeffrey Miller, Murder's Out of Tune

    At the end of the decade, the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, better known as an accomplished miseryguts, captured the zeitgeist more perceptively than most...

    2007, Rob Steen, Sports journalism: a multimedia primer

Origin

From misery + guts.

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Translations

Māori ngutu maioro
  • ngutu maioroA negative person
Cite this entry
APA

miseryguts. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miseryguts

MLA

“miseryguts.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miseryguts. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “miseryguts,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miseryguts.

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