spoilsport

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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

Mendicancy: that of the fraudulent bankrupt with negligible assets paying 1/4d in the £, sandwichman, distributor of throwaways, nocturnal vagrant, insinuating sycophant, maimed sailor, blind stripling, superannuated bailiff’s man, marfeast, lickplate, spoilsport, pickthank, eccentric public laughingstock seated on bench of public park under discarded perforated umbrella. — Ulysses, James Joyce
The gringo, who had sunk his ship, after having run away with his bride and his cruiser; who had taken the treasure which the law of robbers assigned to the captain in good part; this impudent spoilsport again had marred the consummation of vengeance upon his fellow foe, don Benito. — The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California, Gustave Aimard

killjoy, wet blanket, party pooper

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