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When something is Christmassy, it feels like Christmas — the look, the smell, the mood, not the calendar date itself. Red and green, lights on a tree, wrapping paper, pine, cinnamon, a jumper with on it: people call all of that Christmassy. A shop in November can already look Christmassy. It is a warm, informal word. Families say it at home; shops love it in ads. You would not put it in a serious report. Older and younger people both use it. There is no common opposite; you just say it does not feel like Christmas.
很有聖誕氣氛的、充滿聖誕味的
組成Christmas + -y. The ending -y means “like” or “full of” (as in rainy). Christmas itself is from Old English Cristes mæsse, “Christ’s mass” — mass was the church service. Christ comes from Greek khrīstós, used for the Hebrew and Aramaic word for “anointed” (Messiah).
同家族的字
- Christmasthe festival the -y ending is describing
- ChristmastimeChristmas + time: the season around the day
- Christianshares Christ, the first half of Christmas
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Christmassyadj/ˈkɹɪsməsi/
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Resembling or having feelings of Christmas; festive.
- 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 […]
- 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。