"spoilsport" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈspɔɪl.spɔːt/ [UK], /ˈspɔɪl.spɔɹt/ [US] Audio: en-us-spoilsport.ogg , en-au-spoilsport.ogg Forms: more spoilsport [comparative], most spoilsport [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t Etymology: From the verbal expression spoil sport (“ruin the amusement”). Head templates: {{en-adj}} spoilsport (comparative more spoilsport, superlative most spoilsport)
  1. Like a spoilsport. Translations (someone who puts an end to harmless fun): aixafaguitarres [common-gender] (Catalan), esgarriacries [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), 潑冷水的人 (Chinese Mandarin), 泼冷水的人 (pōlěngshuǐ de rén) (Chinese Mandarin), 掃興的人 (Chinese Mandarin), 扫兴的人 (sǎoxìng de rén) (Chinese Mandarin), 煞風景的人 (Chinese Mandarin), 煞风景的人 (shāfēngjǐng de rén) (Chinese Mandarin), škarohlíd [masculine] (Czech), morous [masculine] (Czech), lyseslukker [neuter] (Danish), pretbederver [masculine] (Dutch), spelbreker [masculine] (Dutch), spelbederver [masculine] (Dutch), tujurikkuja (Estonian), gleðidrepari [masculine] (Faroese), ilonpilaaja (Finnish), rabat-joie [masculine] (French), trouble-fête [masculine] (French), აბეზარა (abezara) (Georgian), Spielverderber [masculine] (German), Spielverderberin [feminine] (German), Spaßverderber [masculine] (German), Spaßverderberin [feminine] (German), Spaßbremse [feminine] (German), מַשְׁבִּית שְׂמָחוֹת (mashbít smaẖót) [masculine] (Hebrew), ünneprontó (Hungarian), gleðispillir [masculine] (Icelandic), seargánach [masculine] (Irish), cnádánaí [masculine] (Irish), guastafeste [masculine] (Italian), occīsor fēstārum [common-gender] (Latin), gledesdreper [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), festbrems [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), gledesdrepar (Norwegian Nynorsk), Spellvedoawa [masculine] (Plautdietsch), drewniak [masculine] (Polish), ponurak [masculine] (Polish), smutas [masculine] (Polish), desmancha-prazeres m or f estraga-prazeres [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), кайфоло́м m кайфоло́мка (kajfolóm) [feminine, slang] (Russian), обло́мщик (oblómščik) [masculine] (Russian), обло́мщица (oblómščica) [feminine, slang] (Russian), зану́да (zanúda) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), брюзга́ (brjuzgá) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), ны́тик (nýtik) [masculine] (Russian), partibrejker [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), квариигра [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), kvariigra [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), scunzajocu [feminine, masculine] (Sicilian), scunza-jocu [feminine, masculine] (Sicilian), cortarrollos [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), aguafiestas [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), glädjedödare [common-gender] (Swedish), basag-trip (Tagalog), mızıkçı (Turkish), oyunbozan (Turkish), rabadjoye [feminine, masculine] (Walloon), surbwch [masculine] (Welsh), lladdwr hwyl [masculine] (Welsh)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: spoil-sport [dated]

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈspɔɪl.spɔːt/ [UK], /ˈspɔɪl.spɔɹt/ [US] Audio: en-us-spoilsport.ogg , en-au-spoilsport.ogg Forms: spoilsports [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t Etymology: From the verbal expression spoil sport (“ruin the amusement”). Head templates: {{en-noun}} spoilsport (plural spoilsports)
  1. Someone who puts an end to others' fun, especially harmless fun. Categories (topical): People, Personality Hypernyms: bore, complainer
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: spoil-sport [dated]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2019 September 10, Phil McNulty, “'England horribly fallible in defence' against Kosovo in Euro 2020 qualifying”, in BBC Sport:",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
          "word": "潑冷水的人"
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "word": "מַשְׁבִּית שְׂמָחוֹת"
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "word": "gledesdreper"
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "word": "Spellvedoawa"
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "word": "drewniak"
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "ponurak"
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "smutas"
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "desmancha-prazeres m or f estraga-prazeres"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kajfolóm",
          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "slang"
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          "word": "кайфоло́м m кайфоло́мка"
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          "roman": "oblómščik",
          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "word": "обло́мщица"
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
          "tags": [
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "зану́да"
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          "roman": "brjuzgá",
          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
          "tags": [
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "брюзга́"
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "word": "partibrejker"
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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          "text": "I know I am a sad spoilsport, but it would make me wretched.",
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          "ref": "1912 February 6 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Androcles and the Lion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 31:",
          "text": "He looks a spoilsport. There are men in whose presence it is impossible to have any fun: men who are a sort of walking conscience.",
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      "word": "buzzkill"
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      "word": "cold fish"
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      "word": "grinch"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:spoilsport",
      "word": "killjoy"
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      "word": "miserabilist"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:spoilsport",
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      "word": "wet blanket"
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      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
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      "word": "aixafaguitarres"
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      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "esgarriacries"
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      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "word": "潑冷水的人"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "pōlěngshuǐ de rén",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "word": "泼冷水的人"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "word": "掃興的人"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "sǎoxìng de rén",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "word": "扫兴的人"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "word": "煞風景的人"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "shāfēngjǐng de rén",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "word": "煞风景的人"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "škarohlíd"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "morous"
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "lyseslukker"
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pretbederver"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spelbreker"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spelbederver"
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      "code": "et",
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      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "word": "tujurikkuja"
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      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "gleðidrepari"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "word": "ilonpilaaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rabat-joie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "trouble-fête"
    },
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "abezara",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "word": "აბეზარა"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Spielverderber"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Spielverderberin"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Spaßverderber"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Spaßverderberin"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "Spaßbremse"
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "mashbít smaẖót",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "מַשְׁבִּית שְׂמָחוֹת"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "word": "ünneprontó"
    },
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gleðispillir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seargánach"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cnádánaí"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "guastafeste"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "occīsor fēstārum"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gledesdreper"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "festbrems"
    },
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      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "word": "gledesdrepar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Spellvedoawa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "drewniak"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ponurak"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "smutas"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "desmancha-prazeres m or f estraga-prazeres"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kajfolóm",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "кайфоло́м m кайфоло́мка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "oblómščik",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "обло́мщик"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "oblómščica",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "обло́мщица"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zanúda",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "зану́да"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "brjuzgá",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "брюзга́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nýtik",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ны́тик"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "partibrejker"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "квариигра"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "kvariigra"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "scunzajocu"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "scunza-jocu"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cortarrollos"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aguafiestas"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "glädjedödare"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "word": "basag-trip"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "word": "mızıkçı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "word": "oyunbozan"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rabadjoye"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "surbwch"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "someone who puts an end to harmless fun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "lladdwr hwyl"
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  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": kajfolómka vs. kajfolóm",
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