Christmas (Barbed) Words

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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