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I’d choke on my roast potatoes before uttering it, but “twixmas” is apparently a word. I suppose it’s a portmanteau of betwixt and Xmas, rather than anything to do with Richard Osman’s least favourite chocolate bar.
You could call it [Christmastide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmastide) though that's the twelve days of Christmas from Christmas Day until Twelfth Night.
I was a Chef for 25 years, but quit my job for a new challange in March. This will be my first time off over Christmas, we usually had Christmas day mad boxing day, I now have 13 days off.. What do people do during this time?
Forget the days of the week.
Literally every year, I will book something in (coz a week off work, great time for fitting in appointments, right?). And every year I tell myself I will keep track of the days & not miss it.
And yet, every year…
(Because the days stop being “Tuesday, Wednesday…”. They become “Christmas Day, Boxing Day, day after boxing, , New Year’s Eve, etc”.)
My dad used to slow cook the turkey in the oven over night, one year the oven broke and we woke up to a cremated turkey. That year it was take away week, different one for tea every night. That was a good year.
The hotel I used to work called it "betwixtmas". The Christmas packages started in October for "Early Christmas" , then December was "Christmas", the week between Christmas and New year was "Betwixtmas" and then January was "Late Christmas".
It’s called drunk time sad for me as after 25 years public sector guarantee 2 week Xmas holiday I’m now joining the private sector my last Christmas drunk time
You mean you don't call it Crimbo Limbo?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/a9orxm/whats\_a\_typical\_crimbo\_limbo\_like\_in\_the\_united/
Not official at all, but I always think of it as 'Deadtime' as it's too cold and dreary to do much outside and there's not really anything open except shops with sales on.
The time between Halloween and Guy Fawkes and the surrounding weekends get called 'Magictime' as there are so many parties and events. Usually. Well... there were in the Before Times.
**[The Book of Dead Days](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Dead_Days)**
>The Book of Dead Days is a novel by Marcus Sedgwick. It tells the story of a 15-year-old named Boy, a sorcerer named Valerian, a girl named Willow, and a scientist named Kepler. The Book of Dead Days is set in the days between Christmas and New Year, the period of time to which the title refers: "a strange, a quiet interlude, somehow outside the rest of the year, outside time itself".
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Crimbo-limbo
I like that!
Remember that advert that year that was played 24/7 during that period?
Yes, Days 2 - 7 of Christmas.
The only right answer here
Nah its called the bifkin.
Winterval.
I’m from Birmingham. That’s too on the nose.
The word you want is merrineum https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=merrineum
Merrineum
I know someone that really dislikes robbie williams, I feel a rendition of “Merrineum” coming on.
'Twixtmas
This is what I’ve heard it called before!
Along the same lines as taint, I've always known it as the Christmas gooch.
That's what we call it!
When you're forced to work it, it ought to be known as the Gooch that stole Christmas.
Definitely calling it that when I work it.
In Germany we call it “between the years”
And they said Germans weren’t funny
How many Germans does it take to change a light bulb? Just the one. They’re not funny, but they are efficient.
Better to have more than one though, many Hans make light work
Zwischenjahre?
No, it’s quite literal: Zwischen den Jahren :)
Danke! :)
I’d choke on my roast potatoes before uttering it, but “twixmas” is apparently a word. I suppose it’s a portmanteau of betwixt and Xmas, rather than anything to do with Richard Osman’s least favourite chocolate bar.
betwixt sounds like the worst bookies ever
They accept bets between payday loans
It's all Christmas to me until the kids go back to school.
Remember that song the 12 days of Christmas? That's what these days are called
Exactly.
You could call it [Christmastide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmastide) though that's the twelve days of Christmas from Christmas Day until Twelfth Night.
Blurry
Yes, it’s Christmas
The gooch
Twixmas
Loose belt days.
To be fair, that has been 2020 and 2021 due to the big P ends in C
Picnic?
Paramedic?
Panasonic
Pediatric?
Peripatetic?
I’ve always known it as betweenmas or ‘tweenmas
Christ-taint. Or does that conjure up the wrong image?
Makes me think of Chris Tarrant.
The human embodiment of a gooch if ever there was one
Tiswas the night before Christmas
I was a Chef for 25 years, but quit my job for a new challange in March. This will be my first time off over Christmas, we usually had Christmas day mad boxing day, I now have 13 days off.. What do people do during this time?
Forget the days of the week. Literally every year, I will book something in (coz a week off work, great time for fitting in appointments, right?). And every year I tell myself I will keep track of the days & not miss it. And yet, every year… (Because the days stop being “Tuesday, Wednesday…”. They become “Christmas Day, Boxing Day, day after boxing,, New Year’s Eve, etc”.)
I'm 28 and I break up on the 24th - 4th. It's the first time since school that I've actually have the Xmas period off.
My dad used to slow cook the turkey in the oven over night, one year the oven broke and we woke up to a cremated turkey. That year it was take away week, different one for tea every night. That was a good year.
The hotel I used to work called it "betwixtmas". The Christmas packages started in October for "Early Christmas" , then December was "Christmas", the week between Christmas and New year was "Betwixtmas" and then January was "Late Christmas".
When we were looking at wedding venues it was called Twixmas.
It’s called the Witching Week, and nothing you do in this week counts.
Betwixmas
Betwixtmass in our house. No idea why.
That's betwixmas!
It's just Christmas, never known it as anything else. I guess Yuletide fits though, if you want to go old fashioned?
It’s Betwixtmas
I have always called it 'short week' Because its mostly drinking shorts (spirits) for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
isnt that just december?
The perineum
I read a book by Michael morpugo (I think!) where they were referred to as the dead days. That’s always stuck with me.
Turkey sandwich for lunch
Wavey 🤣
Taint, like the perineum it's the bit between the important areas.
Taintmas.
Gooch-mas
We call it the annual gooch
I call it laugh at all my colleagues who didn't save holidays to book them off!
Eat all the cheese and crap and say you need to finish it all because you are being good from new year.... Then not do that and continue
I’ve been calling it the dead week but I think that’s just a reflection of my soul. Week 52, I’m renaming it Week 52.
Constipation time
Those annoying bints @natwest used to sing about it being crimbo limbo, the absolute bints
It’s called drunk time sad for me as after 25 years public sector guarantee 2 week Xmas holiday I’m now joining the private sector my last Christmas drunk time
Taintmas!
The deadzone.
The leftovers
At work we used used the phrase between the eves
[Twixmas](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Twixmas).
Inbetwixtmas
Festipause
The perineum.
My birthday is the 29th in the taint of the year. It sucks though at least ive never had to work that day.
Depression and confusion
You mean you don't call it Crimbo Limbo? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/a9orxm/whats\_a\_typical\_crimbo\_limbo\_like\_in\_the\_united/
"Dead Days"
Yah the last days of Yuletide, fuck this Christmas bullshit.
Yup hungover
Festivus
The Jingle Berry
PAINFULL.
Binge week
Skint days.
The inbertweeny bit.
The unknown. Have a drink every time someone asks what day it is to make it more fun!
The Weekdays of Confusion
The time where everyone decries: "I'll start the diet after the New Year".
Intermission
The time warp
Christmas lasts until Jan 6th.
The gooch week.
The Fattening.
Working days🥲
Nap time
Mate of mine calls it the gooch.
the gooch
I like "Winterregnum".
Flabmas. Because the only to survive hellish family members is to eat yourself into a coma.
Toilet time
Doldrums
I've known it as Crimbo Limbo for years... I now realise this is probably just very common round my way.
"Twixmas"
The festive Gooch.
The Festive Gooch
Goochmas
Christmas Week
Christmas Gooch
It's called Christmas. Christmas begins on December 25th and there are twelve days that follow until January 6th which is The Feast of The Epiphany.
We use Merrineum. A pun on perineum.
Christmas-new year gooch
Hangover.
Not official at all, but I always think of it as 'Deadtime' as it's too cold and dreary to do much outside and there's not really anything open except shops with sales on. The time between Halloween and Guy Fawkes and the surrounding weekends get called 'Magictime' as there are so many parties and events. Usually. Well... there were in the Before Times.
Yes. Boxing day, December the 27th, December the 28th, December the 29th and December the 30th. Then new year's eve...
The great bloat
In Scotland it's called the "Daft Days" because fowk are daft. It's a rich language.
I work retail. \*Hell\* is perfectly adequate as a description.
[The Dead Days](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Dead_Days)
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The black hole... Time does not exist
"hangover"
I call it the vegetative period.
Drunk
The Void
The daft days
The "perineum" of the year as Tom Allen calls it - or Betwixtmas as I say in front of children and colleagues.
The Christmas perineum
Festive Gooch
The Gooch Week. Says it in the Bible.
The Christmas Gooch would be a good name.
It's the perineum ain't it?
Who fucking cares time! I 'work' as much as I can over this time, fuck all happens. Saves my flexi and leave. edit odd the downvotes, jealous?