[
UK
/wˈɒseɪl/
]
VERB
-
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
- A history like this and it took them 40 odd years to get rid of the Red Army; probably too busy wassailing to notice, I shouldn't wonder.
- They were made from c. 1660 but were probably intended for punch or wassail like their treen counterparts.
- It's a general description of nineteenth-century English Christmas customs, including wassailing and guising, apparently taken from published accounts.
- The local custom of apple-tree wassailing might be of interest to either group after its mention in the bestselling novel set in Herefordshire.
- They put away their coats and sat in the living room sipping wassail.
- It just goes to show that for all the Falstaffian wassail, there's nothing quite like a gory shank from nave to chaps to get the punters in.
- On Wassail night, evil spirits are banished from the orchards and offerings ensure next year's apple crop.
- The word wassail comes from the Anglo-Saxon greeting waes hael, which meant “be well.” Christmas Feast
- Fearing the dark, into which he observed all men passed, he built beyond the dark a fairer region, a happier hunting-ground, a jollier and robuster feasting-hall and wassailing-place, and called it variously CHAPTER XIV
- Over the centuries, various ceremonies and rituals developed around the tradition of drinking wassail.
