There are many strange and fun words to describe festive feelings or actions, such as:
Belly-cheer: feasting satisfaction
Crapulence: sickness from overeating
Scurryfunge: rushing to tidy before a guest arrives
Having enjoyed learning these, I decided to add a few of my own:
Fir-tigue: you’ve got all the decorations out of the attic but are too knackered to actually put the tree up
Choxsplurge: having to re-buy all the chocolates you bought for Christmas because you’ve eaten them before mid-December
Gift-gutted: when you receive an unexpected present and now you have to get them one back
Wrapathy: the tedium of wrapping forty-five individual stocking gifts
Yuleave: working out the maximum number of days off you can get over Christmas for the least number of booked leave days
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Love these! Choxsplurge is, in particular, a very familiar concept at my house…
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Here too!!! I never learn not to buy them until Christmas Eve!
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I can relate to all of these! Love them!
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I quite enjoyed thinking up new works!
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