About The Word Junket
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Junket
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What's The Definition Of Junket?
[n] a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
[n] dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet [v] partake in a feast or banquet [v] provide a feast or banquet for [v] go on a junket Synonyms | Synonyms for Junket: banquet | excursion | expedition | feast | jaunt | outing | pleasure trip | sashay Related Terms | Find terms related to Junket: campaign | carrot pudding | Charlotte | chocolate mousse | circuit | course | custard | duff | excursion | expedition | flan | grand tour | jaunt | journey | mousse | outing | package tour | peregrination | pilgrimage | pleasure trip | plum pudding | progress | pudding | rennet | round trip | roundabout | rubberneck tour | run | safari | sally | shoot | stalk | steamed pudding | syllabub | tapioca pudding | tour | trek | trifle | trip | turn | vanilla pudding | voyage See Also | airing | dessert | eat | field trip | host | jaunt | journey | journeying | travel | trip | wine and dine Junket In Webster's Dictionary \Jun"ket\, n. [Formerly also juncate, fr. It. giuncata
cream cheese, made in a wicker or rush basket, fr. L. juncus
a rush. See 2d {Junk}, and cf. {Juncate}.]
1. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
How Faery Mab the junkets eat. -- Milton.
Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets. --
Chapman.
2. A feast; an entertainment.
A new jaunt or junket every night. -- Thackeray.
\Jun"ket\, v. i. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost. Job's children junketed and feasted together often. -- South. \Jun"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Junketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Junketing}.] To give entertainment to; to feast. The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. -- Walpole. |
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