miseryguts
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
miseryguts (plural miseryguts)
- (colloquial) A miserable, negative person.
- 2004, Ed Murfin, Sabbatical:
- He was regarded standoffish or withdrawn or even as a miseryguts.
- 2005, Jeffrey Miller, Murder's Out of Tune:
- You know, Jers, you've become one incredible miseryguts. A grumpy old granny. I mean, I'm offering you a hand, here.
- 2007, Rob Steen, Sports journalism: a multimedia primer:
- At the end of the decade, the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, better known as an accomplished miseryguts, captured the zeitgeist more perceptively than most...
Translations edit
A negative person
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