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单词 xmas
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Xmasn.

Brit. /ˈkrɪsməs/, /ˈɛksməs/, U.S. /ˈkrɪsməs/, /ˈɛksməs/
Forms: 1500s X'temmas, 1600s Xmasse, 1600s Xtmas, 1600s Xtmasse, 1700s Xtmass, 1700s– Xmas. Also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: X n., -mas comb. form.
Etymology: < X n. (compare sense 10 at that entry) + -mas comb. form, after Christmas n.1, originally as a graphic abbreviation.With the form X'temmas compare Christemmas at Christmas n.1 and int. β. forms, and discussion at that entry.
Chiefly colloquial when not a graphic abbreviation.
Christmas.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas > [noun]
yulea900
yule-daya900
midwinter tideeOE
midwinterOE
Christmas DayOE
ChristmasOE
good tideOE
midwinter dayOE
Christenmasc1330
nativity1389
Nowellc1400
noel1435
pacea1450
Xmas1551
yule-tide1572
Christ-tide1581
Christmastide1590
Christmastime1617
yule time1787
Xmassing1788
festive season1794
Crimbo1928
Chrissie1946
1551 in E. Lodge Illustr. Brit. Hist. (1791) I. 145 From X'temmas next following.
1660 R. Sharrock Let. 24 Nov. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) I. 437 He shall not go through any exact course till after Xtmasse.
1721 J. Buxton Let. 17 Oct. (2005) 36 I hope you will eat at Xmas some roast beef.
1827 H. Arbuthnot Let. 28 Aug. in F. Shelley Diary (1913) II. xi. 166 It is as cold as Xmas—even the butter was frozen.
1882 C. Rossetti Let. 27 July in Rossetti–Macmillan Lett. (1963) 144 I must endeavour to bring out this Carol which is coming out for Xmas in ‘Wideawake’ (Boston).
1954 G. Willans & R. Searle How to be Topp xi, in Molesworth (1999) 204 Still xmas is a good time with all those presents and good food and i hope it will never die out or at any rate not until i am grown up and hav to pay for it all.
2003 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 26 Dec. 65 To my Pauline and all the family up in Snekky, I hope you all have a merry Xmas and New Year.

Compounds

General use as a modifier, as in Xmas card, Xmas Day, Xmas present, Xmas tree, etc.Cf. Christmas n.1 and int. Compounds 1, and Christmas box n., Christmas card n., Christmas tree n.
ΚΠ
1654 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 107 To James Bell and Tom Thompson 2 Husbandmen their Qrs pay ended at Xtmas day last of 3 li. 10s. per man.
c1755 in B. Ward Hist. St. Edmund's Coll. (1893) 303 In ye Xmas and Whitsuntide Vacations.
1875 S. G. Thomas in R. W. Burnie Mem. & Lett. (1891) 55 We are not going to have any Xmas festivities or visitors of any kind.
1916 J. Martin Diary 22 Dec. in Sapper Martin (2010) 34 A big trade is also being done in Xmas cards.
1992 J. Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! xxxi. 285 I'll never know if the fuzz got an early xmas present that night.
2007 M. McCafferty Fourth Comings (2008) xxii. 73 We bonded over French fries and our mutual disappreciation for fake Xmas trees spray-painted with aerosol snow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

Xmasv.

Brit. /ˈkrɪsməs/, /ˈɛksməs/, U.S. /ˈkrɪsməs/, /ˈɛksməs/
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Xmas n.
Etymology: Probably < Xmas n. (originally as a graphic abbreviation). Compare earlier Christmas v.
Chiefly colloquial when not a graphic abbreviation.
intransitive. To celebrate Christmas; to pass or spend the Christmas period somewhere; = Christmas v. 2.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [verb (intransitive)] > Christmas festivities
yulec1650
Xmas1764
Christmas1801
1764 J. Wedgwood Let. 9 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 26 Xmassing & wanted at play.
1907 Middletonian Oct. 86 Sather, Woodworth, Vollum, Parkr and Rockwood Xmased in the gopher state.
2015 @AndyFossett 25 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 14 June 2019) I have adequately xmassed. Can I please go back to work now?

Derivatives

ˈXmassing n.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas > [noun]
yulea900
yule-daya900
midwinter tideeOE
midwinterOE
Christmas DayOE
ChristmasOE
good tideOE
midwinter dayOE
Christenmasc1330
nativity1389
Nowellc1400
noel1435
pacea1450
Xmas1551
yule-tide1572
Christ-tide1581
Christmastide1590
Christmastime1617
yule time1787
Xmassing1788
festive season1794
Crimbo1928
Chrissie1946
1788 C. Dewes Let. 3 Jan. in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd ser. III. xxviii. 469 I wd not have you think yt we have no Xmassing here; we have had as large a round of dinners at Pau as we could have at Welsbourn.
1884 Punch 6 Dec. 268/1 He's beginning Xmassing already.
2017 @tonitones 22 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 14 June 2019) Now for some Xmassing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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