wassail

Definition

  • noun: a hot alcoholic drink that is traditionally served in a large bowl especially at Christmastime
  • noun: an early English toast to someone's health
  • verb: to indulge in wassail
  • synonyms: carouse, convivial

Movie quotes

  • (..) - I have seen nothing - What does this mean, my lord? - The king doth wake tonight and takes his muse Keeps wassail and a swaggering upspring reels, and as he drains his drafts of rhenish down... ...the kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out the triumph of his pledge - Is it a custom? (..)
    2015 Hamlet