See wassail in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "ves heill",
"4": "",
"5": "be healthy!"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse ves heill (“be healthy!”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English wassail, from Old Norse ves heill (“be healthy!”), from the imperative of vesa (“to be”) + heill (“healthy”). The earliest documented use of the term is from the first part of the 12th century CE, in Geoffroy of Monmounth's Historia Regum Britanniae (see page's citations).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "wassails",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wassailing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wassailed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "wassailed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "hail"
},
{
"word": "Wassail in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The next morning he much regretted the gusto with which he had wassailed the night before.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To toast, to drink to the health of another."
],
"links": [
[
"toast",
"toast"
],
[
"drink",
"drink"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To toast, to drink to the health of another."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To drink wassail."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To drink wassail."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2002 February 21, Christopher Morley, “Culture: Children carry a torch for carol king; John Joubert will be 75 next month”, in The Birmingham Post:",
"text": "Schoolchildren around the globe have gleefully sung Torches at Christmastime for half a century. Many of those in Birmingham have wassailed the carol at the front door of a cosy Victorian house in Moseley, unaware that behind that front door lives its composer.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Ronald M. Clancy, Best-Loved Christmas Carols: The Stories Behind Twenty-Five Yuletide Favorites, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., published 2006, →ISBN, page 81:",
"text": "During the Christmas season, carolers traveled from house to house, bringing good wishes and carrying an empty bowl. The master of the house being wassailed was expected to fill the bowl with hot, spicy ale.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010 December 26, Burton Cole, “Holiday mysteries to roast in your wassail”, in Tribune Chronicle:",
"text": "\"I wish someone would come to my house and wassail!\" Jessica P. of Howland said.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To go from house to house at Christmastime, singing carols."
],
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[
"Christmastime",
"Christmastime"
],
[
"carols",
"carols"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈwɑseɪl/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɒseɪl/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɒsl/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwæsl/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/En-us-wassail.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑseɪl"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒseɪl"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒsəl"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æsəl"
}
],
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{
"sense": "go from house to house, singing carols",
"word": "carol"
},
{
"word": "wasseil"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Historia Regum Britanniae"
],
"word": "wassail"
}
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