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I need help finding a word. It was posted a few months ago but I cannot find it in my archives.
The word means something that is said that spoils the mood of the moment.
Thank you for the help.
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Well--the only thing I could think of was to run it through Onelook's Reverse Dict. Somehow I don't think this will help, but just in case, you can take a look here.
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unless the reverse dictionary has been updated, what you get is everything that contains spoil OR mood; what you want, of course, is spoil AND mood.
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what about the word...
kill-joy
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Also, mg, you can go here and Search for it. I'd do a chronological Search if I were you.
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Grinch
noun
1.US informal a person whose lack of enthusiasm or bad temper has a depressing effect on others
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"something that is said" (not someone)
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You quoting something??? Is a person a something??? grinch ???
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I'm having a hard time coming up with thingnames, but I can think of several adjectives; e.g., funereal, drear, caliginous..
oh, wait..
how about spoilsport or marplot?! or wowser!!
(but the OP will probly never come back; and none of these (including grinch) is a recent word-of-the-day)
Last edited by tsuwm; 12/22/2011 10:38 PM.
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Candy came up with killjoy a while back. Works for me. mgiesler doesn't seem to have come back.
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mgiesler ... well, time flies. Months, years.... Grinch.( good word ) Killjoy??? 
Last edited by BranShea; 12/23/2011 6:21 AM.
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