wet-blanketry

English

Etymology

From wet blanket +‎ -ry.

Noun

wet-blanketry (uncountable)

  1. The discouraging attitude of a wet blanket.
    • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 202:
      Our suggestions that any surviving Americans would be likely to have their hands more than full at home was received as so much wet-blanketry. The Americans, they assured us, would never have allowed such a thing to happen in their country.
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