Decembrish

English

Adjective

Decembrish (comparative more Decembrish, superlative most Decembrish)

1. Alternative form of Decemberish
   • 1793 December 15, Robert Burns, The Complete Letters of Robert Burns, Ayrshire: Alloway Publishing Ltd., published 1987, →ISBN, page 207:

     As I am in a compleat Decembrish humour, gloomy, sullen, stupid, as even the deity of Dullness herself could wish, I will not drawl out a heavy letter with a number of heavier apologies for my late silence.

   • 1987, Charles Isenberg, Substantial Proofs of Being: Osip Mandelstam’s Literary Prose, Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 28:

     Written during the years of war and revolution, Tristia is full of portents of the end, of allusions to a funereal, twilit, and decembrish world.

   • 2005, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Read It Again, Cambridge: Salt, →ISBN, page 35:

     Let’s now, by way of innocent example, take a Decembrish lyric of mine, which alludes to the multiple, haunting, sliding, imprecise slather of meanings for Christmas which persist for us up here, even where Christmas begins to mark the champagnesque season of surf, hot sand, sunburn and cold ham.

   • 2005, “Afterword: Cubo-Futurism and Russian Formalism”, in Anna Lawton, Herbert Eagle, transl., Words in Revolution: Russian Futurist Manifestoes, 1912-1928, Washington, D.C.: New Academia Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, page 293:

     Now the evening into the night horror went from the windows, sullen, Decembrish.