christmas n Cp DARE ~ n 1 a for sense 2.
   1 1987 JOHNSTON 32-3 My mother remembers that he would go out mummering all twelve nights of Christmas.
   2 1988 PORTER 199 'I'll be over tonight, before I goes to the party. I got a little gift for you. I s'pose you'll give me my Christmas, will you?' 'Syrup and cake?'
   4 Attrib, comb ~ fish: also, a small freshwater fish, so- called locally on the Burin Peninsula.
   1989 Evening Telegram 14 Jan, p. 10 It struck me that it was 60 years, almost to the day, since I had taken my first 'Christmas fish.' The many 'Christmas fish' I caught were on average about nine inches long and almost an exact replica of a small tomcod, without any of the light brown shade.

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