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Definition of Killjoys
1. killjoy [n] - See also: killjoy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Killjoys
Literary usage of Killjoys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1869)
"... on the necks of the jovial Sindbads, who have been skeletons at the feast,
and wet blankets, and bottle-stoppers, and killjoys, and mirth - quenchers, ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1830)
"so we do not wish to be without " taite or fancy enough for the genuine sportiveness
of table-talk — to be dapper dullards and fastidious pedants — killjoys ..."
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