Definition of a wet blanket

wet blanket    

noun

• a person that kills fun or humor.

  I want to tell her that I got engaged, but she's such a wet blanket.

                                                                                                                                          
  
  Citation from "Bush Comes to Dinner", American Dad! (TV), Season 2 Episode 10 (2007) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: boring.
  • See more words with the same meaning: miscellaneous insults (list of).

  Last edited on Mar 04 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 06 2010.

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Other terms relating to 'boring':
MOTS	Definitions include: acronym for "more of the same".
bore to death	Definitions include: to make a person extremely bored.
cool story, bro	Definitions include: sarcastic remark used to convey a lack of interest in a boring story.
bored to death	Definitions include: very bored.
fun sponge	Definitions include: a boring, humorless person; "wet blanket".
bore stiff	Definitions include: extremely bored.
drag	Definitions include: a person's story: what they would have you believe.
bunk	Definitions include: boring.
bof	Definitions include: used to express displeasure, disagreement, disappointment, or disgust.
tired	Definitions include: outdated, tacky.
bore sh*tless	Definitions include: to make a person extremely bored.
blah	Definitions include: boring.
dead	Definitions include: to consume or use up.
anal retentive	Definitions include: uptight, stingy, conservative; "by the book".
square	Definitions include: a cigarette.
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Other terms relating to 'miscellaneous insults (list of)':
wet	Definitions include: very good, excellent; "cool".
give the middle finger	Definitions include: to raise of the middle finger on a hand with the other fingers closed to the palm, towards a person.
bourgee	Definitions include: "bourgeois".
write-only code	Definitions include: source code that is extremely difficult to understand.
WASPy	Definitions include: relating to a WASP.
bloatware	Definitions include: computer software that occupies too many resources due to its preponderance of features.
stig	Definitions include: See chav.
fanboi	Definitions include: alternate spelling of "fanboy".
blivet	Definitions include: less common spelling of blivit.
knuckle dragger	Definitions include: a snowboarder.
newb	Definitions include: someone who is new to a particular group, activity, game, field of study, etc.
sh*t stirrer	Definitions include: a person who causes problems.
eff off	Definitions include: a censored (bowdlerized) version of "fuck off".
hoss	Definitions include: to annoy someone.
motor-mouth	Definitions include: a person who talks excessively.
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Other terms relating to 'wet':
all wet	Definitions include: completely incorrect.
get (one's) feet wet	Definitions include: to start learning an activity, usually by performing that activity.
get (one's) tip wet	Definitions include: to literally get one's penis wet, via receiving oral sex or having sexual intercourse.
get wet	Definitions include: see wet.
lashes with a wet noodle	Definitions include: a punishment for something small.
rode hard and put away wet	Definitions include: have lived a rough lifestyle.
wet	Definitions include: very good, excellent; "cool".
wet burp	Definitions include: a burp that brings up a little vomit.
wet dream	Definitions include: a dream during which one ejaculates.
wet fart	Definitions include: a fart that leaves moistness in the underwear.
wet (one's self)	Definitions include: to urinate in one's pants.
wet (one's) shirt	Definitions include: to shoot someone
wetted	Definitions include: ridiculously, or extremely drunk, to the point of lost or motor skills.
wet up	Definitions include: To stab/cut (draw blood).
wetware	Definitions include: The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or software.
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