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I think you are misunderstanding 'To sit up late...'. This doesn't mean literally to sit, it means to stay up late, regardless of the position in which you do t
by celticninja 5y ago
I think you are misunderstanding 'To sit up late...'. This doesn't mean literally to sit, it means to stay up late, regardless of the position in which you do this. Very few revels(parties) would include sitting as the main attraction. So in this case the stay woke ball, being held overnight would indeed mean stay awake for the night, when you would otherwise be sleeping.
- OJFord 5y agoNo, actually I completely glossed over the 'sit up' part of that definition. My choice of 'stay sat down' as an example was a complete coincidence. What I meant was just that it's another example of seemingly ungrammatical 'stay <verb in simple past>', but one that's in reasonably common modern usage, and thus that the meaning of 'woke' in 'the stay woke ball' is in the 'to stay up revelling' usage, not (merely, obviously it's necessary) 'wake up and stay in that state' usage.
- robertlagrant 5y agoI think that you've misunderstood the comparison the previous commenter was drawing.
- celticninja 5y agothis is entirely possible