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Definition of wassail in English: wassailnoun ˈwɒs(ə)lˈwɒseɪl mass nounarchaic 1Spiced ale or mulled wine drunk during celebrations for Twelfth Night and Christmas Eve. （主显节前夕和圣诞节前夕祝酒时用的）加香料的淡啤酒;加糖和香料的温热葡萄酒 a mighty bowl of wassail in which the apples were hissing and bubbling Example sentencesExamples - Imagine what it would be like doing business if your operation was designed to be an authentic historical recreation, down to the beverage menu that greeted customers with such obscure offerings as shrub, nog and wassail.
- Over the centuries, various ceremonies and rituals developed around the tradition of drinking wassail.
- Trust me when I say that those of you drinking wassail made only from apple juice, or having a fruitcake that hasn't been drowned in brandy are missing out on something exquisite.
- They were made from c. 1660 but were probably intended for punch or wassail like their treen counterparts.
- They put away their coats and sat in the living room sipping wassail.
- 1.1 Lively and noisy festivities involving the drinking of plentiful amounts of alcohol; revelry.
热闹酒宴；狂欢 I arrived in Eastcheap, that ancient region of wit and wassail Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- Last week the news item about the forthcoming wassail on this Wednesday, December 12, said that Warrenpoint Town Hall was the venue.
- 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.
Synonyms wild party, debauch, carousal, carouse, revel, revelry, bacchanalia, bacchanal, saturnalia, dionysiacs
verb ˈwɒs(ə)lˈwɒseɪl [no object]archaic 1Drink plentiful amounts of alcohol and enjoy oneself with others in a noisy, lively way. 痛饮 he feasted and wassailed with his warriors Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- 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.
- After 1800, this Christmas misrule took on a nastier tone, as young and alienated working-class New Yorkers began to use wassailing as a form of rambling riot, sometimes invading people's homes and vandalizing their property.
- They dominate nearly half the tavern's area, loudly drinking, singing, boxing, and otherwise wassailing to the extent that almost nothing else can be heard or done by others.
Synonyms drink and make merry, go on a drinking bout, go on a binge, binge, binge-drink, overindulge, drink freely, drink heavily, go on a pub crawl, go on a spree - 1.1historical with object (in south-western England) drink to (fruit trees, typically apple trees) in a custom intended to ensure a fruitful crop.
〈史〉（英格兰西南部）（为确保好收成而）向（果树，尤指苹果树）祝酒 it is the custom, in the cider districts of Sussex, to wassail the apple trees Example sentencesExamples - The local custom of apple-tree wassailing might be of interest to either group after its mention in the bestselling novel set in Herefordshire.
2Go from house to house at Christmas singing carols. 挨家挨户唱圣诞节颂歌 我们这就去挨家挨户唱圣诞节颂歌。 Example sentencesExamples - It's a general description of nineteenth-century English Christmas customs, including wassailing and guising, apparently taken from published accounts.
- 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.
- It's an old tradition, which, along with wassailing and mumming, we have performed over the years in and around Skipton, and many people, especially those young in heart, enjoy the music and dance in which all are invited to participate.
- Snuggled away in other cottages, you'll find chestnut sellers and storytellers, mummers and madrigal singers - to really get into the spirit of the thing, you could wassail your way from door to door.
- Every man, woman and child seems to be out wassailing - bar one.
Synonyms sing, trill, chorus, warble, chirp, pipe, quaver, chant, intone
Derivativesnoun archaic The room where the wassailers will assemble needs to have greenery as decoration. Example sentencesExamples - Back in the 17th Century, some hardcore wassailers would get their bowl topped up with more alcohol at each house they visited, with often messy results.
- The champagne was flowing, the wassailers were singing, and the cookie decorating station was going full force.
- They are usually sanitized and sentimentalized versions of the often rowdy, disruptive, and inebriated wassailers who wandered from house to house in the holiday season, singing, being fed, and sometimes threatening mischief.
- The wassailers customarily carried bowls of the hot drink, wassail, and offered sips to prospective donors.
OriginMiddle English wæs hæil 'be in (good) health!': from Old Norse ves heill (compare with hail2). The drinking formula wassail (and the reply drinkhail 'drink good health') were probably introduced by Danish-speaking inhabitants of England, and then spread, so that by the 12th century the usage was considered by the Normans to be characteristic of Englishmen. In the Middle Ages wassail was a drinking toast that literally meant ‘Be in good health’. The polite reply was drinkhail, ‘Drink good health’. Both words come from Old Norse, and were probably introduced by Danish-speaking inhabitants of England. By the 12th century they were considered by the Normans to be characteristic of Englishmen: in a work of 1190 the English students at the university of Paris are praised for generosity and other virtues, but are said to be too much addicted to ‘wassail’ and ‘drinkhail’. The second half of each toast is related to the Old English words hale (Old English), as in hale and hearty, hail (Middle English) to greet’, and whole (Old English).
Definition of wassail in US English: wassailnoun archaic 1Spiced ale or mulled wine drunk during celebrations for Twelfth Night and Christmas Eve. （主显节前夕和圣诞节前夕祝酒时用的）加香料的淡啤酒;加糖和香料的温热葡萄酒 Example sentencesExamples - Over the centuries, various ceremonies and rituals developed around the tradition of drinking wassail.
- They were made from c. 1660 but were probably intended for punch or wassail like their treen counterparts.
- Trust me when I say that those of you drinking wassail made only from apple juice, or having a fruitcake that hasn't been drowned in brandy are missing out on something exquisite.
- They put away their coats and sat in the living room sipping wassail.
- Imagine what it would be like doing business if your operation was designed to be an authentic historical recreation, down to the beverage menu that greeted customers with such obscure offerings as shrub, nog and wassail.
- 1.1 Lively and noisy festivities involving the drinking of plentiful amounts of alcohol; revelry.
热闹酒宴；狂欢 Example sentencesExamples - Last week the news item about the forthcoming wassail on this Wednesday, December 12, said that Warrenpoint Town Hall was the venue.
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms wild party, debauch, carousal, carouse, revel, revelry, bacchanalia, bacchanal, saturnalia, dionysiacs
verb archaic 1no object Drink plentiful amounts of alcohol and enjoy oneself with others in a noisy, lively way. 痛饮 Example sentencesExamples - 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 dominate nearly half the tavern's area, loudly drinking, singing, boxing, and otherwise wassailing to the extent that almost nothing else can be heard or done by others.
- After 1800, this Christmas misrule took on a nastier tone, as young and alienated working-class New Yorkers began to use wassailing as a form of rambling riot, sometimes invading people's homes and vandalizing their property.
- 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.
Synonyms drink and make merry, go on a drinking bout, go on a binge, binge, binge-drink, overindulge, drink freely, drink heavily, go on a pub crawl, go on a spree 2Go from house to house at Christmas singing carols. 挨家挨户唱圣诞节颂歌 我们这就去挨家挨户唱圣诞节颂歌。 Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- Snuggled away in other cottages, you'll find chestnut sellers and storytellers, mummers and madrigal singers - to really get into the spirit of the thing, you could wassail your way from door to door.
- It's an old tradition, which, along with wassailing and mumming, we have performed over the years in and around Skipton, and many people, especially those young in heart, enjoy the music and dance in which all are invited to participate.
- Every man, woman and child seems to be out wassailing - bar one.
- It's a general description of nineteenth-century English Christmas customs, including wassailing and guising, apparently taken from published accounts.
Synonyms sing, trill, chorus, warble, chirp, pipe, quaver, chant, intone
OriginMiddle English wæs hæil ‘be in (good) health!’: from Old Norse ves heill (compare with hail). The drinking formula wassail (and the reply drinkhail ‘drink good health’) were probably introduced by Danish-speaking inhabitants of England, and then spread, so that by the 12th century the usage was considered by the Normans to be characteristic of Englishmen. |