Saturday, December 09, 2006
Wassail
Wassail is all about drinking and making merry on festive occasions. Some of you were well aware of that. Maybe it's the time of year. I guess I can blame my non-drinker status for never having come across wassail before. Interesting pronunciation too. It seems to be either "woesil" or "waysil". Some interesting meanings made their way to the blog, with the voters choosing Haberman's Habits this time. Congratulations!
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My husband just happened to be sitting next to me at the computer and so i asked him what he thought "wassail" meant. He replied, "God knows, but I am going to wassail off to bed." Well, I am sure God does know, I don't, and my husband just might. So I/we are going to say that wassail means to mosey. e.g. even though it was only 9:50pm on a Saturday night, Jude and Tony were tired and decided to wassail their way to bed for a luxurious nights' sleep.
i think i actually know the meaning of this word, so i'm going to have to cast aside my presuppositions for a bit, here ...
Wassail. N. - a parlaimentary procedure that is used after debate has reached an absolute stalemate. eleven men and women in robes who haven't been able to agree on something confer, rip up paper, natter on about the way it used to be and whose district really has the best bread pudding. all of this is done in a huddle. they have exactly 43 minutes to decide on something. they usually decide that Neville's district has the best bread pudding but that Ewan's grandmother makes the best treacle and they break almost always never having reached an agreement on a motion important to the citizen.
"After three months of debate, 11 members of parlaiment held a Wassail to determine if a minute change in the tax code should pass."
In the history of the Wassail, only once has an actual legislative decision been made.
Wassail means to thwart an assailant. The masked men broke into Lulu's apartment, but she wassailed them by dropping banana peels on the floor and escaping out the window while they were slipping and sliding.
A wassail is a bird with an extra-long wingspan and glides sideways. Hence, the name, "wassail" was given to this bird. "Was that a sail?" It looks like it is sailing in the air.
wassail is the term hangh gliders use for the thrill of sailing through the sky.
Andrew landed and said that was one perfect wassail the exhillerating moment of the wind wassailing me across the sky is unforgettable.
A wassail is an educated guess. It's a term only used in the financial industry, such as "We're not sure how the markets will go, but we're take a wassail at it - buy! buy! buy!"
sometimes the definitions that have already been suggested are so wonderful that my mind goes blank and I can't post any of my own!
Haha, I learned this word over Thanksgiving break.
But in my world, to wassail is to beat against something until it gives way...waves weathering rocks would be a good example.
Wassail is the tag end of the batch of ale, usually drunk around Christmas. Hence the phrase, "Here we go a wass-ale-ing"--that is, drinking the very dregs as we've drunk all the rest.
Wassail is when you go to a store and the salesperson says that it was on sale last week.
" Well you shoulad have been here last week it Wassail for 50% off."
LOL Margie. I can't beat that definition.
Ok, now seriously...no one has heard the word "wassail?" (I'll give you a hint...it has something to do with Christmas!)
Even if you know the word's meaning, you pretend you don't! It's more fun that way.
Wassail is an old English term equivelant to "awesome", as in a term used by many to express how good something is.
"Did you see Moira's new cape? It's wassail!"
Wassail and Wassup lived in a land far far away...
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