WASSAILER

toaster, wassailer

(noun) someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the health of success of someone or some venture

wassailer, carouser

(noun) someone who enjoys riotous drinking

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

wassailer (plural wassailers)

One who wassails.

Source: Wiktionary


Was"sail*er, n.

Definition: One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler. The rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

24 May 2025

EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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Coffee Trivia

An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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