wassailers
Festive door-to-door singers
Wassailers are people who go from house to house singing carols and offering toasts of goodwill, traditionally during the Christmas season.
The practice comes from wassail, a spiced drink shared during these visits.
The term evokes old English customs of communal celebration: The wassailers arrived at the door, cups in hand, singing.
Appliances that brown bread
- revelersThose who celebrate noisily
- bowlConcave food container
- punchStrike with fist
- spicedSeasoned with aromatics
ale · cider · mead · merrymakers · carousing · celebrants · festivity · goblet
Those who vocalize melodies
- carolersFestive door-to-door singers
- ChristmasWinter nativity celebration
- door-to-doorDirectly between residences
- hymnsReligious songs of worship
festive · neighborhood · yuletide · serenaders · harmonizing · songsters · merriment · Victorian
toasters
Appliances that brown bread
spiced · ale · cider · mead · merrymakers · carousing · celebrants · festivity · goblet · health
singers
Those who vocalize melodies
- carolersFestive door-to-door singers
- ChristmasWinter nativity celebration
- door-to-doorDirectly between residences
hymns · festive · neighborhood · yuletide · serenaders · harmonizing · songsters · merriment · Victorian · traditional
apple-trees
Fruit-bearing orchard plants
harvest · pagan · ceremony · libation · toast · agricultural · tradition · prosperity · Somerset · Devon
- partygoerspartygoers, party-goer, party-goers, attendee, partier
- drinkersdrinker, drinkers, imbiber, imbibers, drunk
- feastersfeasters, banqueters, diners, gourmands, gorgers
wassailersrecluses
People avoiding all society
hermits · killjoys · Scrooges · wallflowers · loners
wassailersmutes
Silences or softens
wallflowers · listeners · shrinking violets · bystanders · onlookers
wassailersScrooges
Stingy, cold-hearted types
killjoys · party poopers · wet blankets · grinches · curmudgeons