Wassail

English

Noun

Wassail (plural Wassails)

1. A toast to health, usually at a festival.
2. The beverage served during a wassail.
3. Revelry.

Verb

Wassail (third-person singular simple present Wassails, present participle Wassailing, simple past and past participle Wassailed)

1. (transitive) To toast, to drink to the health of another.

   The next morning he much regretted the gusto with which he had wassailed the night before.

2. (intransitive) To drink wassail.

Thesaurus

bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, bender, binge, bout, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration, compotation, debauch, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, frolic, guzzle, hell, high jinks, jag, orgy, potation, pub-crawl, revel, revelment, riot, roister, skylarking, soak, spree, symposium, tear, toot, whoopee

Translations

Noun

beverage served during a wassail

Welsh: gwirod (cy) m. and f.

See also

• 15px Wassail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 15px Wassailing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Wassailing
• 15px wassail in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.