Definitions for hansels

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hansels han·sel

Spelling: [han-suh l]

IPA: /ˈhæn səl/

Hansels is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in hansels (aehlnss).

Definitions for hansels

noun

1. a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
2. a first installment of payment.
3. the initial experience of anything; first encounter with or use of something taken as a token of what will follow; foretaste.

verb (used with object)

1. to give a handsel to.
2. to inaugurate auspiciously.
3. to use, try, or experience for the first time.

noun, verb (used with object)

1. handsel.

Origin of hansels

before 1050; Middle English handselne good-luck token, good-will gift, Old English handselen manumission, literally, hand-gift (see hand, sell

Examples for hansels

Grethel wept bitterly, and said to hansel, “What will become of us?”

hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters manages to change the fairy tale so that its protagonists are armed like GI Joe.

Much like Max, hansel and Gretel are abandoned by their parents in the forest and forced to fend for themselves.

I am looking at my little dove,” answered hansel, “nodding a good-by to me.

We cannot get over,” said hansel; “I can see no bridge at all.

Gretel wept bitterly, and said to hansel, "What will become of us?"

When noon came Grethel shared her bread with hansel, who had strewn his on the path.

The folk tale “hansel and Gretel” originated in these years.

After a few ridiculous barbs, Zoolander flexes his ego, challenging hansel to a “walk-off.”

But I said: 'hansel and Gretel is one of the scariest stories ever written!