Wassail

Definitions: Wassail

Wassail

Noun

1. Sweetened ale or wine heated with spices and roasted apples; especially at Christmas.

Verb

1. Celebrate noisily; engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!".

2. Propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!" "Let's drink to the New Year".

Date "wassail" was first used: sometime around 1140. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Wassail (2 syl.). A salutation used on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day over the spiced-ale cup, hence called the "wassail bowl." (Anglo-Saxon, Waes hael, be whole, be well.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Wassail

Synonyms: drink (v), make happy (v), make merry (v), make whoopie (v), pledge (v), racket (v), revel (v), salute (v), toast (v), whoop it up (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat.
Food	Wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail; gin; (intoxicating liquor); coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep; near beer. beer, non-alcoholic beverage.
Intemperance	Revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Wassail

English words defined with "wassail": Wassail bowl, Wassail cup. (references)

Specialty definitions using "wassail": Public-house Signs. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Brewing Mead: Wassail! In Mazers of Mead (reference) Do the Wassail: A Short Guide to Wassail Songs, Customs, Recipes and Traditions or How to Have a Fine Geegaw of a Wassail (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Wassail (reference) Wassail! Wassail! (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Wassail" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Wassail" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	50%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	25%	1	339,140
Noun (proper)	25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Expressions using "wassail": wassail bowl ♦ wassail cup. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "wassail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shabakim, shëndet (bless you, health, lustiness, pledge, soundness, toast), dolli (health, rouse, toast), birrë me erëza. (various references)

Bulgarian		коледувам, коледно питие, гуляй (bat, bend, bender, binge, blowout, bout, bum, carouse, drinking bout, feed, jamboree, junket, racket, randan, rant, rattle, razzle, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, rouse, soak, spree, tear), гощавка (cheer), вдигам наздравица (give, pledge), наздравица (health, pledge, rouse, toast), празнично питие, пир (banquet, feast, regale, revel), пия наздравица. (various references)

Czech		radovánky (festivity, rejoicing, revelry). (various references)

German		Gelage (banquet, binge, carousal, carousals, carouse, feast, junket). (various references)

Greek		γλέντι (carousal, carouse, conviviality, festivity, jamboree, jollification, junket, junketing, lark, merry making, reception, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree), πίνω εισ υγείαν (toast), ευωχία (carousal, spree). (various references)

Hungarian		ízesített sör. (various references)

Pig Latin		assailway

Portuguese		passar a noite bebendo, maçãs (apples, mincemeat), festim (carousal, feast, feast day, junket, kid, regale, symposium), divertir-se (dally, disposable, enjoy, feast, flirt, frolic, fun, funambulist, gambol, jollify, lark, merry-make, move away, play, recreate), cerveja com especiarias, brinde (gift, health center, present, remembrance, toast), bebedeira (bacchanalia, binge, drunkenness, ebriety, fuddle, guzzle, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, libation, pickle, skinful, spree), banquete (banquet, dinner, dinner party, feast, feast day, regale). (various references)

Russian		здравица, пирушка (carousal, jamboree, kick up, merry-meeting, rant, revel, revelry, rout, spread, sprees, wingding). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zdravica (rouse, toast), pijanka (batata, binge, carousal, drinking bout, guzzle, spree). (various references)

Turkish		noelde içilen baharatlı içki, içki alemi (bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bacchanals, binge, booze, carousal, drinking bout, drunk, jag, souse), şerefe içme (pledge, toast). (various references)

Ukranian		гулянка (beanfeast, beano, booze, junket, revel, revelry, whiz, whizz). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "wassail": wassailed, wassailer, wassailers, wassailing, wassails. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Wassail" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kassmaul, wasabi, wasail, wassaile, wassal, wassale, Wassalke, wasseil, wassial, wassil, Wassily, Whassa, whassail. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-s-s-w"
	-1 letter: assail, swails.
	-2 letters: alias, assai, sails, salsa, sials, sisal, slaws, swail, wails.
	-3 letters: aals, ails, alas, awls, lass, laws, sail, sals, saws, sial, slaw, wail, wiss.
	-4 letters: aal, aas, ail, ais, ala, als, ass, awa, awl, las, law, lis, sal, saw, sis, was, wis.
	-5 letters: aa, ai, al, as, aw, is, la, li, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-s-s-w"
	+1 letter: sahiwals, wassails.
	+2 letters: aisleways, wassailed, wassailer.
	+3 letters: disavowals, wassailers, wassailing.
	+5 letters: swallowtails.
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