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Definition of merrymaking in English: merrymakingnoun ˈmɛrɪmeɪkɪŋˈmɛriˌmeɪkɪŋ mass nounFun; festivity. I'd had my fill of merrymaking and decided to stay put till my headache eased Example sentencesExamples - His earlier genre scenes concentrate on peasants merrymaking or brawling in houses, taverns, or barns.
- I've hardly known a bloke who did not like the merrymaking, that Christimas epitomises.
- The wider feelings of distrust or dislike for the Irish harbored by some passengers on board were concentrated in the disapproval of their dancing and general merrymaking.
- After an evening of requisite merrymaking, I eventually summoned forth the energy to stumble out of bed the next day and wander the short distance from my hotel to the event grounds.
- He heard a few reactionary mutterings of disappointment amongst the barflies; staff smashing glasses was the height of sophisticated merrymaking after a certain volume of arm-bending.
- More ceilidh dancing, drinking and merrymaking.
- For that authentic, sweaty, draft-drenched night-at-the-Commie experience, you're ironically advised to consider the Sidetrack Café for your New Year's merrymaking.
- While our brothers and sisters in Aceh were experiencing a great calamity, some of us were indulging in convivial merrymaking at luxury hotels on New Year's Eve.
- Finally, scholars trace the ‘Santa Claus’ story to an incident in which an intoxicated Saint Nicholas returned home after a winter's night of merrymaking, surprised to find his house keys no longer worked.
- Call it the urge to shake a leg or a penchant for merrymaking or an ideal mix of fun and entertainment.
- The juxtaposition of a park for merrymaking alongside a park designed to evoke a sense of debt owed past sacrifice accounted for the shrine's broad-based appeal.
- I tell them to celebrate widely, and I ask the police not to lock them up just because they are merrymaking.
- I can not believe a nation as addicted to drinking, hunting, fighting and riotous merrymaking as the English didn't have some rousing folk music in the past.
- More raucous merrymaking took place in public spaces as artisans and farmers raised liberty poles and enlisted men fired thirteen-gun salutes.
- Throughout the European countryside, the culmination of harvest season has always been a cue for thanksgiving and merrymaking, a time to kill the fatted calf, crack open a few bottles, have a dance and get seasonally sloshed.
- It was supposed to contain not a jot of propaganda, to be all sheer art, merrymaking, and the euphoria of proud toil.
- In three decades of celebrations, friendly gatherings, bashes, and general merrymaking, I've never experienced anything quite like it.
- Which is reason enough to celebrate, although it has taken awhile for the members of Radke's bargaining team to climb on board for the merrymaking.
- None of the merrymaking warriors is looking towards where a long column of tiny figures is stealthily descending upon them.
- Nozomi will bear no grudge; for it detracts from his happiness and capacity for merrymaking.
- Little did the complacent Bezirk know that West German accounts of the very same meetings spoke of laughter, merrymaking and private house parties.
- Em was not isolated from the merrymaking - against her will, of course.
- But all the merrymaking ends when the trial begins.
- Few of us sit down every day, as they do across much of Europe, for a relaxing family meal that could take up to three hours of fun-filled banter and merrymaking to consume.
- The hours of merrymaking and celebration had stretched late the night before, and she suspected there would be more than one person who took carris seed before the ceremony.
- They also abandoned whole towns to go merrymaking.
- Yet the din emanating from the country's corporate boardrooms is not that of clinking champagne glasses and boisterous merrymaking.
- This is most evident in the second movement, described as having ‘a sense of animation and urgency’ which feels more like merrymaking under duress.
- General merrymaking on the second day of Easter includes the rolling of Easter eggs, games to test one's strength, and swinging on swings.
- Christmas trees, lights, candles, trimmings and turkeys will be among the things turning seasonal merrymaking into misery and mayhem for Swindon families over the holiday period.
- All around me, the merrymaking sounds of the party continued on, but I was oblivious.
- Large inset windows reveal generic scenes of merrymaking inside the pub.
- Peals of laughter and merrymaking yelled out through the wood door.
- I broke my tune, and raised my head in the merrymaking's direction.
- On Friday the Museum of Richmond hosts Come Forth and Play, a look at engravings of merrymaking, playing Tudor games and making a Nine Men's Morris.
- So the goofy Greeks decorated their merrymaking in pretty bows and successfully sublimated their impulses with constrictive ceremonial routines.
- The Ati-atihan festival in honor of Santo Nino, one of the most revered Roman Catholic icons in the Philippines, was stopped, turning merrymaking into mourning for the victims.
- Participating in the merrymaking occurs amongst all regardless if one is employed or unemployed.
- We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture.
- In all of this merrymaking, I cannot overlook the meticulous research into instruments and music that preludes such an undertaking.
Synonyms high spirits, high-spiritedness, exuberance Definition of merrymaking in US English: merrymakingnounˈmɛriˌmeɪkɪŋˈmerēˌmākiNG The process of enjoying oneself with others, especially by dancing and drinking. I'd had my fill of merrymaking and decided to stay put till my headache eased Example sentencesExamples - On Friday the Museum of Richmond hosts Come Forth and Play, a look at engravings of merrymaking, playing Tudor games and making a Nine Men's Morris.
- The juxtaposition of a park for merrymaking alongside a park designed to evoke a sense of debt owed past sacrifice accounted for the shrine's broad-based appeal.
- For that authentic, sweaty, draft-drenched night-at-the-Commie experience, you're ironically advised to consider the Sidetrack Café for your New Year's merrymaking.
- I can not believe a nation as addicted to drinking, hunting, fighting and riotous merrymaking as the English didn't have some rousing folk music in the past.
- Few of us sit down every day, as they do across much of Europe, for a relaxing family meal that could take up to three hours of fun-filled banter and merrymaking to consume.
- The hours of merrymaking and celebration had stretched late the night before, and she suspected there would be more than one person who took carris seed before the ceremony.
- Which is reason enough to celebrate, although it has taken awhile for the members of Radke's bargaining team to climb on board for the merrymaking.
- But all the merrymaking ends when the trial begins.
- More ceilidh dancing, drinking and merrymaking.
- While our brothers and sisters in Aceh were experiencing a great calamity, some of us were indulging in convivial merrymaking at luxury hotels on New Year's Eve.
- This is most evident in the second movement, described as having ‘a sense of animation and urgency’ which feels more like merrymaking under duress.
- Christmas trees, lights, candles, trimmings and turkeys will be among the things turning seasonal merrymaking into misery and mayhem for Swindon families over the holiday period.
- Nozomi will bear no grudge; for it detracts from his happiness and capacity for merrymaking.
- He heard a few reactionary mutterings of disappointment amongst the barflies; staff smashing glasses was the height of sophisticated merrymaking after a certain volume of arm-bending.
- More raucous merrymaking took place in public spaces as artisans and farmers raised liberty poles and enlisted men fired thirteen-gun salutes.
- The Ati-atihan festival in honor of Santo Nino, one of the most revered Roman Catholic icons in the Philippines, was stopped, turning merrymaking into mourning for the victims.
- Yet the din emanating from the country's corporate boardrooms is not that of clinking champagne glasses and boisterous merrymaking.
- Call it the urge to shake a leg or a penchant for merrymaking or an ideal mix of fun and entertainment.
- Throughout the European countryside, the culmination of harvest season has always been a cue for thanksgiving and merrymaking, a time to kill the fatted calf, crack open a few bottles, have a dance and get seasonally sloshed.
- Large inset windows reveal generic scenes of merrymaking inside the pub.
- I tell them to celebrate widely, and I ask the police not to lock them up just because they are merrymaking.
- All around me, the merrymaking sounds of the party continued on, but I was oblivious.
- Peals of laughter and merrymaking yelled out through the wood door.
- His earlier genre scenes concentrate on peasants merrymaking or brawling in houses, taverns, or barns.
- They also abandoned whole towns to go merrymaking.
- Finally, scholars trace the ‘Santa Claus’ story to an incident in which an intoxicated Saint Nicholas returned home after a winter's night of merrymaking, surprised to find his house keys no longer worked.
- Little did the complacent Bezirk know that West German accounts of the very same meetings spoke of laughter, merrymaking and private house parties.
- Em was not isolated from the merrymaking - against her will, of course.
- It was supposed to contain not a jot of propaganda, to be all sheer art, merrymaking, and the euphoria of proud toil.
- We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture.
- None of the merrymaking warriors is looking towards where a long column of tiny figures is stealthily descending upon them.
- General merrymaking on the second day of Easter includes the rolling of Easter eggs, games to test one's strength, and swinging on swings.
- In three decades of celebrations, friendly gatherings, bashes, and general merrymaking, I've never experienced anything quite like it.
- I've hardly known a bloke who did not like the merrymaking, that Christimas epitomises.
- After an evening of requisite merrymaking, I eventually summoned forth the energy to stumble out of bed the next day and wander the short distance from my hotel to the event grounds.
- So the goofy Greeks decorated their merrymaking in pretty bows and successfully sublimated their impulses with constrictive ceremonial routines.
- In all of this merrymaking, I cannot overlook the meticulous research into instruments and music that preludes such an undertaking.
- The wider feelings of distrust or dislike for the Irish harbored by some passengers on board were concentrated in the disapproval of their dancing and general merrymaking.
- I broke my tune, and raised my head in the merrymaking's direction.
- Participating in the merrymaking occurs amongst all regardless if one is employed or unemployed.
Synonyms high spirits, high-spiritedness, exuberance |