Cringe at "Crimbo"

[UnquietDad]

Please sign in here if you do. I think people who use it should be shot.

" Christmas. Cf. CRIMBLE n. Also used in interjections: cf. CHRISTMAS n. 1c.

1928 Strand Mag. July 70/1 306 You've saved your man, by crimbo. 1966 P. MOLONEY Plea for Mersey 63 Dick Crimbo = St. Nicholas. 1989 Looks Dec. 5 Worth cancelling a crimbo party to catch this one, it's totally fab. 2001 GQ Nov. 122/2 A crisp £20 handed to the dustman just before Crimbo may seem like sheer profligacy."

" Christmas. Cf. CRIMBO n.

1963 J. LENNON in Beatles Fan Club Recording in New Musical Express 6 Dec. 10/2 Garry Crimble to you, Garry Crimble to you, Garry Bable, Dear Christmas, Happy Birthday, me too! 1987 Just Seventeen 16 Dec. 6/2 Stevie's determined to have a well-wacky Crimble do. 1994 Sun Zoom Spark Dec. 22/3 Couldn't we just shut him in the attic and let him out for 12 days around Crimble along with the baubles and tinsel. 2002 Observer 6 Jan. (Business section) 7/8 As..only 300 digital radio sets were in the shops this Crimble, the company's performance on the stock market shouldn't really be a surprise."

And Rhubs, the OED kind of disagrees with you:

Forms: 19- Chrimbo, Crimbo. Also with lower-case initial.

Christmas. Cf. CRIMBLE n. Also used in interjections: cf. CHRISTMAS n. 1c.

1928 Strand Mag. July 70/1 306 You've saved your man, by crimbo. 1966 P. MOLONEY Plea for Mersey 63 Dick Crimbo = St. Nicholas. 1989 Looks Dec. 5 Worth cancelling a crimbo party to catch this one, it's totally fab. 2001 GQ Nov. 122/2 A crisp £20 handed to the dustman just before Crimbo may seem like sheer profligacy.

So?
It's still horrid.

Well how very dare the OED disagree with me! DO THEY KNOW WHO I AM?????????????

I heart Habbibu for the research; still dislike Crimbo. What, what.

Oh come on, UQD, if you can't be pedantic (i.e. drag in the OED) in pedants' corner, where can you?

I hate it too, and if I was 90 I'd have hated it since 1928.

Pen, all that public money going to Universities has to be of some use, non?

No! We are filthy scroungers, wringing the hard-working taxpayer dry in our ivory towers. We should be out there, earning £50k+!

Scrubbers.

Scrubbers?

That's not including onebat, who never scrubs. Apparently. Although I think she may not work in the Ivory Towers.

Dunno. Just like it. Doesn't Withnail bellow it out the car window at some girls?

I think people who break into French mid-sentence should be shot? No?

what about people who do it at the end of sentences, Swedes? Hanging too good for them, I'll warrant.

T'was the end of the sentence [pedant].

Pedant chi-posts!

LOL - x-post. Smart Alecs, we.

I think the lecturers' rate of pay only wrings the taxpayer moist, niet?

And again!

LOL at you both. Fair cop.

it just waves them out of the window and shakes off a couple of drops, thready.

Moist is a filthy word. Shame on you.

I'm not keen on the word moist. It makes me feel anxious.

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[gran]
[groan]

Suedoise! Je suis bouleversée!

I am very happy with moist. I think it is because I am in love with houseplants and moist is a good state of soil for them on the whole.

I don't like the word lactating. It's so difficult.

I am moist between the hams, much of the time.