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Christmassy
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English
Alternative forms
en Christmasy
Etymology
en :af Christmas -y<id:adjectival> + 1
Pronunciation
en /ˈkɹɪsməsi/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Christmassy.wav Southern England
Adjective
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Resembling or having feelings of Christmas; festive.
en un-Christmassy
en 2008 Sheila Whiteley Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture Edinburgh University Press 9780748631872 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
en 24 December 2010 w:Jesse Armstrong; w:Sam Bain Seasonal Beatings Peep Show (British TV series) Peep Show 7 5 w: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.
en w:Mark Diacono In praise of the Asian pear http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/11841361/In-praise-of-the-Asian-pear.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150912113541/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/11841361/In-praise-of-the-Asian-pear.html 12 September 2015 The Daily Telegraph (Gardening) 5 September 2015 1 They [Asian pears] are unquestionably Christmassy and festive, with their golden speckled skin.
Derived terms
en Christmassiness unchristmassy
Translations
resembling or having feelings of Christmas
Catalan: ca nadalenc
Cebuano: ceb paskohanon
Dutch: nl kerstachtig
Faroese: fo jólaligur
Finnish: fi jouluinen, fi jouluisa
French: fr noëlien
German: de weihnachtlich
Icelandic: is jólalegur
Italian: it natalizio
Norwegian: no julete, no julaktig
Portuguese: pt natalício
Spanish: es navideño
Swedish: sv julig
en Christmas