Santaphobe

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noun

Someone who dislikes or fears Santa Claus.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounSantaphobe (plural Santaphobes)

plural Santaphobes

  1. Someone who dislikes or fears Santa Claus.

    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.

    2008 February, Roger Scruton, “Santaphobia”, in The American Spectator, volume 41, number 1, →ISSN, page 50
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    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?

    1967, Ogden Nash, “Foreword”, in Santa Go Home: A Case History for Parents, Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, unnumbered page

    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.

    2016 December 11, Emalie Marthe, “Why Kids Are Unreasonably Terrified of Santa Claus”, in Vice

Origin

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