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#203863 12/19/11 04:31 PM
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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.

mgiesler #203876 12/20/11 03:45 AM
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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.

mgiesler #203879 12/20/11 07:44 AM
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what about the word...

kill-joy

mgiesler #203883 12/21/11 02:49 AM
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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
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1.US informal a person whose lack of enthusiasm or bad temper has a depressing effect on others

BranShea #203888 12/22/11 12:29 AM
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"something that is said" (not someone)

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You quoting something??? Is a person a something???

grinch ???

BranShea #203894 12/22/11 10:29 PM
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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)

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mgiesler #203895 12/22/11 10:56 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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