单词 | wassailing |
释义 | wassailingn. 1. The action of wassail v.; carousing, riotous festivity. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking freely carousing1582 wassailinga1586 wassail1603 glowsing1622 the bowl1805 society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun] > noisy or riotous riotingc1390 revelling1395 revelc1400 revelryc1410 revel-rout?1499 jetting1509 deray?a1513 company keeping1529 banqueting1535 roistingc1560 wassailinga1586 riotise1590 roister-doisterdom1592 reels1603 roaring1617 ranting1633 rattle1688 high jinks1699 roistering1805 spree1808 wassailry1814 revelment1822 Tom and Jerryism1822 spreeing1845 to be on the roister1860 riotousness1882 whoopee1928 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ll3 Spending all the day, and good part of the night in dauncing, carolling, and wassalling. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 61 That men should bee..push't forward to gaming, jigging, wassailing, and mixt dancing is a horror to think. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 36 Its feudal hospitalities, and lordly wassailings, have passed away. 1913 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Balder the Beautiful (ed. 3) I. ii. 58 Before the wassailing begins, the various fathers perform a curious operation on the arms of their sons. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > festivities associated with Christmas yulea900 wassailing1742 réveillon1766 junkanoo1825 quaaltagh1835 1742 Agreeable Compan. in Halliwell Shaks. (1856) VI. 332 'Twas an ancient custom amongst poor people to go a wesseling at Christmas... Such poor people went about to get money to drink your health, and for which they carried a box..to put their money in. 1889 D. E. Hurst Horsham (ed. 2) Gloss. Sussex Wds. Wasseling, a name given to the singing of Christmas carols at the doors of houses, a practice..which is dying out. Compounds attributive, as wassailing bowl, wassailing song, wassailing watch. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > large beaker1348 facer1527 wassailing bowl1555 wassail-cup1600 wassail-bowl1606 consciencea1643 bellarmine1720 breakfast-cup1762 longbeard1850 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > drinking-song drinking-song1597 wassail1607 Bacchic1676 Bacchanaliaa1680 epileny1708 tavern-song1823 wassail-song1829 pot-song1850 wassailing song1914 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. ix. 194 The maner is, out of one of these Skulles, as out of a wassailing boule, to giue all those the wine that haue slaine an enemie. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxvii. sig. Ff6 Meaning to obserue a wassaling watch all that night. 1914 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 134 The wailing songs and wassailing songs of darker days. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1555 |
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