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Meanings of wassail in inglés
Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities.
Usage of wassail in inglés
1
Only the presence at table of their leaders kept the wassail down.
2
Orgies and wild wassail hold a mocking sway in the courts of death.
3
With wine and wassail they nerved themselves for the desperate deed.
4
Oh, to be young again an' not spill life in wassail!
5
In 1599 Arthur Chichester brought this wassail bowl from his native Devon to Ulster.
6
You have had wassail enough for the holiday evening, for you speak thick already.
7
Johnno had mixed together what he grandly termed a wassail.
8
Is this an hour to give to wine and wassail?
9
What wassail-bowls, robin-redbreasts, waits, snow landscapes, bursts of Christmas song!
10
The rafters of the great living-room shook with the roar of wassail and of song.
11
What could be more English than a good wassail?
12
He was hailed with wassail and even with wine.
13
A psalm preceding and a prayer following a Puritan posset-pot made a satisfactorily solemn wassail.
14
We'll wassail hold till the break of dawn, we friends of the poor man's club!
15
He, too, would leave his strong box unlocked in his hurry if cards or wassail called.
16
Something attempted, something done, seemed to me to have earned two-penn'orth of wassail in the smoking-room.
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Wassail across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common