Christmassy
English
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Old English Cristes mæsse
Middle English Cristemasse
English Christmas
English Christmassy
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkɹɪsməsi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]Christmassy (comparative Christmassier, superlative Christmassiest)
- Resembling or having feelings of Christmas; festive.
- Antonym: un-Christmassy
- 2008, Sheila Whiteley, Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 122:
- It is important to guard against any hint of a generalisation here that 'less Christmassy music' always accompanies a 'less Christmassy sentiment', and indeed Greg Lake's 'I Believe In Father Christmas' (1974) is proof that the converse is not […]
- 2010 December 24, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, “Seasonal Beatings”, in Peep Show, season 7, episode 5, via Channel 4:
- Mark: That looks like a lovely turkey. I'm sorry I flew off the handle a bit.
Jeremy: That wasn't very Christmassy.
Mark: No, it wasn't. I apologise.
- 2015 September 5, Mark Diacono, “In praise of the Asian pear”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)[1], archived from the original on 12 September 2015, page 1:
- They [Asian pears] are unquestionably Christmassy and festive, with their golden speckled skin.
Derived terms
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[edit]resembling or having feelings of Christmas
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