wet-blanketry

noun

The discouraging attitude of a wet blanket.

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Meanings

nounwet-blanketry (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe 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

From wet blanket + -ry.

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