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verb

as in to drink
to take part in drunken revelry the knights feasted and wassailed for three days after the battlefield victory

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Recent Examples of wassail
Noun
Since 2022, cider sommelier Dan Pucci and Madeleine Osborn have hosted their idiosyncratic take on an English wassail celebration, the ancient tradition of visiting apple orchards in the wintertime to fête the trees and promote a prosperous harvest in the year to come. Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 26 Nov. 2024 The French enjoy their vin chaud, the British their wassail. Anna Lee Iijima, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2024 Each glass of this nonalcoholic wassail is garnished with an apple slice and cinnamon stick. Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2023 Enjoy Harvest Cider, special wassail cocktails, live music, costume contest and the Blessing of the Trees. Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 14 Jan. 2024 One of the most traditional holiday drinks of them all, wintertime wassail gets a contemporary update in this flavorful drink recipe. Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 15 Nov. 2023 One variation involves people traveling door-to-door singing traditional songs and spreading good wishes while carrying a bowl of wassail. Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2023 Reception from 5-8 p.m. (360 K St.; see Facebook event) Anchorage Distillery — Paintings and prints by Laura Dewey with a limited special edition cocktail menu, including whiskey wassail. Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2021 By the era of Downton Abbey, the practice of drinking wassail had moved to Christmas and the roasted apples served only as flavoring and decoration. The Official Downton Abbey Christmas Cookbook, Town & Country, 4 Nov. 2020
Verb
Image Image In the village of Midsomer Norton, about 50 miles away, 100 people or so turned out for a community event to wassail three small apple trees in the local park. Stephen Castle, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025 This drink was often used as part of wassailing in England. Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2023 Reisinger's Apple Country, located in Watkins Glen on Seneca Lake, also has a wassailing event on the horizon. Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Jan. 2018 There was toasting and wassailing all around And cinnamon sticks in yule logs were wrapped and bound. Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 26 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wassail
Noun
  • Then, the president’s trainwreck brother, Tripp Morgan (Jason Lee), wakes up in room 301 next to Wynter’s corpse after passing out drunk.
    Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Marijuana, which went mainstream decades ago, is hardly worth mentioning anymore; stoners are merely later-generation drunks in the book of comical inebriation.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Tonya drinks too much and is blacked out most of the time.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Currently, more than 200 million Americans, or about 75% of the population, drink fluoridated water.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • New England Patriots The Patriots continued their free-agent spending spree Tuesday night, adding star wide receiver Stefon Diggs to a receiving group that needed a No. 1.
    Austin Mock, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Starting around 2011 Endeavor went on a buying spree acquiring everything from the Professional Bull Riders to the Frieze Art Fair.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Netflix is giving us a hilarious stand-up special from a fan-favorite comedian and a rom-com starring Sofia Carson and Connie Britton to binge, while Disney+ has a sweet new family comedy featuring Eva Longoria.
    Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Her love of science came from watching PBS shows as a kid with her mom and spending too much time binging Doctor Who. food science wellness behavior & society sustainability 1 free article left Want More?
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Its governor, Edward Jackson, was a close friend of the the Indiana Klan leader, D. C. Stephenson, a pudgy man with a reputation for high living, carousing, and trouble with the law.
    Tara McAndrew, JSTOR Daily, 25 Jan. 2017
  • From there, a series of scenes — a late-night house party full of adults drinking and carousing, a cascade of tinsel falling off a Christmas tree, a playground fail — replicate a you-are-there feeling as a preadolescent named Elwood Curtis navigates the agonies and ecstasies of boyhood.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024

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