Brewer's: Wassailers

Those who join a wassail; revellers, drunkards.

I should be loath To meet the rudenoss and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers.

Milton: Comus (The Lady).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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