"New Year's" - Word of the Day from the OED

[Dave Monroe]

OED Online Word of the Day

New Year's, n. DRAFT REVISION Sept. 2003

Chiefly N. Amer.

Brit. /nju jz/, /nju jz/, U.S. /n(j)uj()rz/, /n(j)u j()rz/  [Short for
New Year's Day n. at NEW YEAR n. Compounds 3.]

    New Year's Day.

1845 Knickerbocker 25 128 Stay away on New-Year's and you stay away
all the year. 1865 Atlantic Monthly 15 450/1 Almiry, who's always
wantin' fresh ribbons about New Year's. 1909 Springfield (Mass.)
Weekly Republican 4 Nov. 1 The general elections are not now expected
until after New Year's. 1952 J. REANEY in R. Weaver Canad. Short
Stories (1960) 383 The Christmas holidays were haunted for me by my
fear of what would happen when I went back there after New Year's.
1975 F. DECKER in S. Terkel Working IV. 190 She's just lucky he's home
Christmas and New Year's.

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