Santaphobe

English Etymology From en Santa phobe. Noun Someone who dislikes or fears Santa Claus. en 1967 w:Ogden Nash Foreword Santa Go Home: A Case History for Parents Boston, MA w:Little, Brown and Company unnumbered https://archive.org/details/santagohomecaseh0000nash/page/n11/mode/2up?q=Santaphobe He asked me to do a piece exploring the dark and hitherto hidden phases of the childhood of Santa Claus as revealed by the searchlight of modern child psychology; . What hard-line Santaphobe could resist such a lure? en 2008 February w:Roger Scruton Santaphobia w:The American Spectator 41 1 0148-8414 50 https://archive.org/details/sim_american-spectator_2008-02_41_1/page/50/mode/2up?q=Santaphobe During my bachelor years it was my habit to spend Christmas firmly shut away with a fellow Santaphobe, dedicating the day itself to work and study, with a quiet meal of roast pork and claret at the end of it. en 2016-12-11 Emalie Marthe Why Kids Are Unreasonably Terrified of Santa Claus Vice (magazine) Vice https://www.vice.com/en/article/mbqe7p/why-kids-are-unreasonably-terrified-of-santa-claus Even if a kid accepts Santa, she or he may panic about the bearded icon in certain situations. "I would always leave out cookies and milk for him, [but] when it came to meeting him in person, I couldn't handle it," says Jane, a 25-year-old former Santaphobe. https://web.archive.org/web/20240524200045/https://www.vice.com/en/article/mbqe7p/why-kids-are-unreasonably-terrified-of-santa-claus 24 May 2024 Related terms en Santaphobia en eponyms