wassail
IPA: vʌsˈeɪɫ
noun
- A toast to health, usually on a festive occasion.
- The beverage served during a wassail, especially one made of ale or wine flavoured with spices, sugar, roasted apples, etc.
- Revelry.
- A festive or drinking song or glee.
verb
- (transitive) To toast, to drink to the health of another.
- (intransitive) To drink wassail.
- To go from house to house at Christmastime, singing carols.
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Examples of "wassail" in Sentences
- But today, after this short note, I will be rejoining the ongoing wassail.
- The name may also come from byg wassail, byg being the Norse term for barley.
- The word wassail comes from the Anglo-Saxon greeting waes hael, which meant “be well.”
- Glögg is similar to a variety of historical mulled wines, such as wassail and gluwein.
- The modern day Apple Wassail is often used as an excuse to drink vast quantities of cider and party all night.
- Yuletide "wassail", can be derived from his having "powlert up and down" in a county abounding with comfortable manor houses and cosy inns.
- It is presumed the agent was successful as there are no reports that either Hillary or Monica tried to dunk the other's head in the wassail bowl.
- He was apt to tell me when he had been sitting up all night, whether in study or what he called wassail; but I could always guess the fact from his appearance.
- For hot "wassail", use orange koolaid the church's brand is best....but you can't buy it with a pinch of cinnamon and a tiny pinch of cloves in it, then heat it.
- And each meeting meant a drink; and there was much to talk about; and more drinks; and songs to be sung; and pranks and antics to be performed, until the maggots of imagination began to crawl, and it all seemed great and wonderful to me, these lusty hard-bitten sea - rovers, of whom I made one, gathered in wassail on a coral strand.
- There is something barbaric, I suppose, in the British customs still -- something that reminds one of their ancient condition when the Romans conquered them -- when their supreme idea of enjoyment was to have an ox roasted whole before them while they drank "wassail" till they groveled under their own tables in a worse condition than overfed swine.
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