Definitions
Etymologies
- Blend of stay and vacation (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Wikipedia defines the word staycation as a neologism for a period of time in which an individual or family stays at home and relaxes at home or takes day trips from their home to area attractions.”
The Huffington Post: Courtney Cachet: In Defense of the Staycation
“Now I know the word staycation sounds like someone with a lisp trying to buy a Playstation, but it's the in-thing.”
“When the economy improves I hope the silly term staycation is the first casualty.”
“July 9/PRNewswire/-- Hardworking word-lovers everywhere can now learn the meaning of the word staycation ( "a vacation spent at home or nearby") along with nearly 100 other new words and”
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“Salon. com published an article by Billy Frolick that captures the ambivalence that many people feel about the word staycation as a euphemism for "too broke to go anywhere.”
“Last summer's explosion of gas prices inspired much chatter around the "staycation" - or, taking a vacation in or around one's home.”
Sally Horchow: Spring Break In Trying Times? 5 Rules for the Perfect Staycation
“It's a "staycation" - we're not leaving the state.”
“Maybe you two need a "staycation" -- rent some movies one weekend and make his favorite foods.”
“Leisure travel is a luxury that can be cut, prompting some to opt for a "staycation" - a stay-at-home holiday with occasional day trips.”
“It's tough luck for the families who are having to pay an extra £24 for their flights to the Costa – though a "staycation" might be a good thing for the economy – but in these straitened times, cutting the cost of an airline seat is unlikely to be top of the chancellor's to-do list.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘staycation’.
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longer new words in Scrabble
these were collected recently
mostly from Chambers and some
from Collins dictionaries.acathisia, acathisias, acentrics, aciclovir, aciclovirs, acidically, acinetobacter, acinetobacters, acrophobics, aculeates, advertizings, aerodigestive and 1320 more...
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a list of inane -cation variants
staycation, daycation, altercation, cation, classification, caycation, fraycation, neighcation, braycation, jaycation, awaycation, praycation and 96 more...
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Neologisms
'New' words.
neurogami, sexting, plussies, plussy, churnalism, hecka, greenwashing, greenwash, Blogistan, diactrize, subsume, cachebusting and 27 more...
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New and Unholy Coinage
21st century coinage. Any strange words you`ve seen on TV or heard from irritating young people.
hateration, holleration, chillax, weaksauce, pimpin', hella, meme, blamin, propagandhi, jazzercise, blog, social lubricant and 58 more...
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Nycanthro's list
I like words. Have kept running lists for years now. If I'd been born wealthy I'd be a linguist. Or maybe a semi-reclusive yet world-weary linguist-humanitarian-hiphop-icon known for his humility a...
oaktag, backstory, homonormative, gobshite, imagineer, comeuppance, tomfoolery, ersatz, widdershins, gigajoule, oneupmanship, conniption and 40 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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Days Off
PTO, vacation, day off, holiday, hols, furlough, gite, busman's holiday, staycation, honeymoon, babymoon, sick day and 23 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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Myriadmiration
Neologisms ala Wordnik.com. Directly below are links to some other New Word lists... pease suggest yours to add!
Ne(word)er by whichbe
fake words by sionnach
frivolous uni...obstacular, frenemy, delayering, playgue, abjective, contradictionary, sarchasm, goggly, ecolect, disimagine, alligavate, sniboluous and 330 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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Pop Culture
Comic strip character names and words, along with modern slang oddities.
rowrbazzle, pogo, rhinocerwurst, bitchin', cowabunga, joe btfsplk, churchy la femme, howland owl, porky pine, miss mamselle hep..., shmoo, unobtanium and 390 more...
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working list
overkill, premonition, discombobulation, golliwogs, guerilla, paraphernalia, banter, gambit, atonement, leeway, ingenuity, haberdashery and 164 more...
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words I have an irrational and burnin...
celesbian, crouch, perez hilton, slop, lotus boob, anal fissure, eat out, crotch, sewage, backwash, vomit, pus and 100 more...
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Englische Kuriositäten
glasshole, waffle, wonky, corpsicle, obamarama, monkeypox, brazilianisation, privatopia, metallurgy, fwap, zombiefied, bric-a-brac and 8 more...
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2008 in Review
A list of words I've compiled which happen to have something to do with the events of 2008. I just needed to put them somewhere.
jai ho, flurge, vpilf, staycation, collapse, clusterfuck, partisan, slumdog, maverick, snuggie, change, bailout
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I love you for your meaning
cassoulette, propinquity, nudibranch, gustatory, incorrigible, neophobic, detritus, bargainous, staycation, steampunk, catastrophizing, yeasayer and 38 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for staycation.
The_Word_Guy 1. A stay-at-home vacation. A portmanteau word derived from "stay" and "vacation." Coined in 2003 in an article in Myrtle Beach's "The Sun News" newspaper.
Jun 28, 2009
trivet What yarb said. We have an extraordinarily annoying and overplayed radio thingie about staycations that stalks my sanity. Gah! Aug 1, 2008
john "And he certainly would not have thought of a “journey�? as a simple weekend jaunt across town, or merely across the living room, in the form of a pseudo-respite known as a “staycation�? (formerly known as “staying home�?)."
The New York Times, Pfffffffffft! There Goes the Vacation, by Alex Williams, July 20, 2008 Aug 1, 2008
oroboros We're going to see a lot more of this word with $5.00 gas! Jul 7, 2008
yarb Ghastly. May 12, 2008
super-julia UGH. is this even for real..? May 12, 2008