🍷 A spiced drink 🥳 To celebrate loudly 🎶 To sing door-to-door

to wassail

1 9.9

To go from house to house singing to bring good luck at Christmas

verb
/ˈwɔːseɪl/

Archaic

: cantar villancicos

Every Christmas Eve, the children wassail through the neighborhood, singing joyful songs.

Examples

The children wassailed from door to door.
They planned to wassail after dinner, visiting friends and sharing holiday cheer.
In some villages, people still wassail to bring good luck for the new year.
They love to wassail during the holiday season.
Every Christmas Eve, the children wassail through the neighborhood, singing joyful songs.
They planned to wassail after dinner, visiting friends and sharing holiday cheer.
In some villages, people still wassail to bring good luck for the new year.

Antonyms

to stay home

493 1.0

Be at home and not go out

How Festive

to parade

24 2.9

to wassail

Archaic

1 9.9

to carol

12 4.1

to call on

40 3.1

visit

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

wassail infinitive

wassailed past

wassailed past participle

wassailing present participle

wassails third person singular

Etymology

Wassail as a verb also comes from the old phrase wes hál that meant 'be healthy' and was shouted as people went from house to house singing and sharing a bowl, so wassail can mean 'to go caroling or visit houses'.