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Word entry · 7 letters

wassail

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"Holiday toast"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈwɑseɪl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aailsswStarts with WEnds with L2 clues
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Definitions

  1. propose a toast to

Word origin

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 Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (see page's citations).

Used in a sentence

  • Add ſugar, nutmeg and ginger, / VVith ſtore of ale too; / And thus ye muſt doe / To make the vvaſſaile a ſvvinger.
  • In merry wassail he […] peals his loud song.
  • The victors abandoned themselves to feasting and wassail.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Holiday toast7 letters
02Spiced holiday drink7 letters

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