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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wet blanket
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But there was no large wet blanket to be had.
▪ Morose Michell wins the wet blanket award.
▪ Roy is just like something you'd find in a baby's pram-a wet blanket.
▪ They thought he was a middle aged wet blanket.
▪ Why be a wet blanket now?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wet blanket

Wet \Wet\ (w[e^]t), a. [Compar. Wetter; superl. Wettest.] [OE. wet, weet, AS. w[=ae]t; akin to OFries. w[=e]t, Icel. v[=a]tr, Sw. v[*a]t, Dan. vaad, and E. water. [root]137. See Water.]

  1. Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table. ``Wet cheeks.''
    --Shak.

  2. Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season. ``Wet October's torrent flood.''
    --Milton.

  3. (Chem.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.

  4. Refreshed with liquor; drunk. [Slang]
    --Prior.

    Wet blanket, Wet dock, etc. See under Blanket, Dock, etc.

    Wet goods, intoxicating liquors. [Slang]

    Syn: Nasty; humid; damp; moist. See Nasty.

Wiktionary
wet blanket

n. (context idiomatic English) A person who takes the fun out of a situation or activity, as by pessimism, demands, dullness, etc.

WordNet
wet blanket

n. someone who spoils the pleasure of others [syn: spoilsport, killjoy, party pooper]

Wikipedia
Wet blanket

Wet blanket may refer to:

  • Fire blanket, a wet blanket used as a device to put out a fire
  • Wet Blanket Policy, an animated cartoon
  • The Wet Blankets, a band led by Joseph Casamassima
  • "Wet Blanket", a 1987 song from The Chills' Brave Words