grinch
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grinch
- /ɡɹɪnt͡ʃ/
Rhymes with -ɪntʃ
Where it comes from
Named after the main character in a children's book by Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957). Coined as early as 1953, the term was initially used for a fictitious bird named the "Beagle-Beaked-Bald-Headed Grinch" in Scrambled Eggs Super!; it became associated with the character in a poem published in the May 1955 issue of Redbook, "The Hoobub and the Grinch". Likely a corruption of grouch.
noun grinches
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A grouch or killjoy.
Here's what they would risk: appearing responsible for higher taxes next year after Obama offered them a deal to extend the Bush-era rates, coming off as grinches for failing to extend unemployment insurance during the holiday season, and the possibility that next year Obama and Democrats will actua
Similar: grouch, killjoy, spoilsport, addle-plot, buzzkill, cold fish, curmudgeon, dampener, downer, fun sponge, grinch, joy killer
- A person who is aggressively intent on ruining the Christmas holidays for others.
verb grinches · grinching · grinched
- To act like a grinch; to be a killjoy towards someone.
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