Santaphobe
English
Etymology
From Santa + -phobe.
Noun
Santaphobe (plural Santaphobes)
- Someone who dislikes or fears Santa Claus.
- 1967, Ogden Nash, “Foreword”, in Santa Go Home: A Case History for Parents, Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, page unnumbered:
- He asked me to do a piece exploring the dark and hitherto hidden phases of the childhood of Santa Claus as revealed by the searchlight of modern child psychology; […] . What hard-line Santaphobe could resist such a lure?
- 2008, Roger Scruton, “Santaphobia”, in The American Spectator, volume 41, number 1, ISSN 0148-8414, page 50:
- During my bachelor years it was my habit to spend Christmas firmly shut away with a fellow Santaphobe, dedicating the day itself to work and study, with a quiet meal of roast pork and claret at the end of it.
- 2016 December 11, Emalie Marthe, “Why Kids Are Unreasonably Terrified of Santa Claus”, in Vice:
- Even if a kid accepts Santa, she or he may panic about the bearded icon in certain situations. "I would always leave out cookies and milk for him, [but] when it came to meeting him in person, I couldn't handle it," says Jane, a 25-year-old former Santaphobe.
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Related terms
- Santaphobia