One word for Christmas? [closed]
One might propose yulegaiety or yuleglee, although whether that implies anniënnui I am uncertain.
I am going to propose "Anteneoannusnoelojollification"
Built from
- ante — Before
- neo — new
- annus — year
- noel — Christmas
- o — bridging vowel for word fluidity
- jollification — the act of jollifying, making happy.
Making something merry at Christmas before the New Year.
No citations until it makes it into the OED.
Neologisms ahoy ...
- I'm having some major jollitude
- I'm feeling Santastic
- I'm all falala
- I'm totally kringled right now.
Merry is reserved (by whom?) for Christmas; Happy is for the New Year.
This has been documented.
meta: I feel it has also been mentioned here on ELU around Christmas last year. This?
Non-word: noëlfun.
I suggest unchristmassing because Christmas is an exclamation expressing:
surprise, dismay, or despair.
So if you are unchristmassing you are being the opposite of those things, which sounds good.
Since it contains the word christmas, it should only be used at that time of year.