aguafiestas

m.&f. s&pl.

1 spoilsport.

2 killjoy, discourager, kill-joy, disheartener.

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aguafiestas

► nombre masulino o femenino invariable

1 killjoy, spoilsport, wet blanket

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noun mf.

killjoy, spoilsport

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SMF INV spoilsport, killjoy

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masculino y femenino (pl aguafiestas) (fam) wet blanket (colloq), party pooper (AmE colloq)

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= party pooper, show-stopper [showstopper], spoilsport, misery guts, wet blanket, sour puss.

Ex. He is a self-confessed party pooper, he doesn't drink, smoke, or do drugs and his only vices are caffeine, fatty foods, and the Internet.

Ex. In engineering use, a show-stopper is usually some aspect of a project that is so bad that it threatens to cancel the project unless it is corrected.

Ex. These are just some of the tried and tested fun-prevention techniques which have been used by spoilsports down the centuries.

Ex. At the other end of the scale are misery guts, who are neither happy with their job role nor their employer.

Ex. I can also remember a time when slurs were uttered about Jewish people and if you didn't laugh you were considered a wet blanket.

Ex. It is no fun being around you when you are being such a sour puss.

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masculino y femenino (pl aguafiestas) (fam) wet blanket (colloq), party pooper (AmE colloq)

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= party pooper, show-stopper [showstopper], spoilsport, misery guts, wet blanket, sour puss.

Ex: He is a self-confessed party pooper, he doesn't drink, smoke, or do drugs and his only vices are caffeine, fatty foods, and the Internet.

Ex: In engineering use, a show-stopper is usually some aspect of a project that is so bad that it threatens to cancel the project unless it is corrected.

Ex: These are just some of the tried and tested fun-prevention techniques which have been used by spoilsports down the centuries.

Ex: At the other end of the scale are misery guts, who are neither happy with their job role nor their employer.

Ex: I can also remember a time when slurs were uttered about Jewish people and if you didn't laugh you were considered a wet blanket.

Ex: It is no fun being around you when you are being such a sour puss.

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aguafiestas

masculine and feminine

(pl aguafiestas) (fam)

wet blanket (colloq), spoilsport (colloq), party pooper (AmE colloq)

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aguafiestas sustantivo masculino y femenino (pl

◊ aguafiestas ) (fam) wet blanket (colloq), party pooper (AmE colloq)

aguafiestas mf inv spoilsport, wet blanket

'aguafiestas' also found in these entries:
English:
killjoy
- misery
- spoilsport
- wet blanket
- kill
- spoil
- wet

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aguafiestas nmf inv

spoilsport

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aguafiestas

m/f inv partypooper, killjoy

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aguafiestas nmfs & pl

: killjoy, stick-in-the-mud, spoilsport

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aguafiestas n spoilsport