[
UK
/wˈɒseɪl/
]
VERB
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celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!
The members of the wedding party made merry all night -
propose a toast to
Let us toast the birthday girl!
Let's drink to the New Year
NOUN
- a punch made of sweetened ale or wine heated with spices and roasted apples; especially at Christmas
How To Use wassail In A Sentence
- If the macaronic inclusion of ecclesiastical Latin is too sober for your holiday, you can always set the Wayback Machine to last year's wassails. Archive 2008-12-01
- Forms of worship will be exempt under the law but, together with traditional forms of music like wassailing, music events held in churches will not.
- 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. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
- Glögg is similar to a variety of historical mulled wines, such as wassail and gluwein. 12 Days of Bacon: Day Twelve « TV BACON
- Yuletide "wassail", can be derived from his having "powlert up and down" in a county abounding with comfortable manor houses and cosy inns. Dickens-Land
- With political, social, and religious turmoil raging only miles away, he created in his poetry a lively and animated world in which he sings of may-poles yielding to hock-carts that, in turn, make way for wassails and wakes.
- 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. Chapter 16
- 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. Chapter 16
- Before enclosures, festivals were vigorously convivial; they were ‘off-licence’ times, drunken, licentious and rude, from midsummer ales to apple-tree wassailing, to May Day's liaisons.
- Every man, woman and child seems to be out wassailing - bar one.
