miseryguts

English

Etymology

misery +‎ guts

Noun

miseryguts (plural miseryguts)

  1. (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      He was regarded standoffish or withdrawn or even as a miseryguts.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...

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