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grinch [grɪntʃ]
n
US informal a person whose lack of enthusiasm or bad temper has a depressing effect on others
[from a character in the 1957 children's book How the Grinch stole Christmas by Dr Seuss (1904-91), US writer and illustrator, whose full name was Theodor Seuss Geisel]


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