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单词 wassailing
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wassailingn.

Etymology: < wassail v. + -ing suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwassailing.
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.
2. The action (formerly practised by the children of poorer families in some English country districts) of going from house to house at Christmas-time, singing a song expressive of good wishes for Christmas and the coming year, usually with the addition of carols or other songs.
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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.
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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).
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