spoilsport

Etymology

From the verbal expression spoil sport (“ruin the amusement”).

noun

  1. Someone who puts an end to others' fun, especially harmless fun.
    I know I am a sad spoilsport, but it would make me wretched. 1908, Edward Morgan Forster, A Room with a View, Chapter XIV
    He looks a spoilsport. There are men in whose presence it is impossible to have any fun: […] 1912, George Bernard Shaw, Androcles and the Lion, Act II

adj

  1. Like a spoilsport.
    It may seem somewhat spoilsport to focus in on this negative after another important victory but to ignore it would be delusion. Southgate will not be letting it escape his attention. 10 September 2019, Phil McNulty, “'England horribly fallible in defence' against Kosovo in Euro 2020 qualifying”, in BBC Sport

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