wassail

1. 1.

   a punch made of sweetened ale or wine heated with spices and roasted apples; especially at Christmas

   Broaderpunch

Other forms of wassail

plural

wassails·

past tense

wassailed·

present participle

wassailing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wassail

What does wassail mean?

wassail means "celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wassail?

wassail has 2 syllables: was-sail. The stress falls on "sail".

What is another word for wassail?

Close synonyms include revel, racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wassail a common word?

wassail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.