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Junket   /dʒˈəŋkɪt/   Listen
noun
Junket  n.  
1.
A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food. "How Faery Mab the junkets eat." "Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets."
2.
A feast; an entertainment. "A new jaunt or junket every night."
3.
A trip made at the expense of an organization of which the traveller is an official, ostensibly to obtain information relevant to one's duties; especially, a trip made by a public official at government expense. The term is sometimes used opprobriously, from a belief that such trips are often taken for private pleasure, and are therefore a waste of public money; as, a congressional junket to a tropical country.



verb
Junket  v. t.  (past & past part. junketed; pres. part. 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."



Junket  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."






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"Junket" Quotes from Famous Books



... equally to inanimates. 'Done lib' means die; 'sabby' (Portuguese) is to know; 'chop,' to eat; 'cut the cry,' to end a wake; 'jam head,' or 'go for jam head,' to take counsel; 'palaver (Port.) set,' to end a dispute; to 'cut yamgah' is to withhold payment, and to 'make nyanga' is to junket. 'Yam' is food; 'tummach' (Port.) is the metaphorical heart; 'cockerapeak' is early dawn, when the cock speaks; all writing, as well as printing, is a 'book;' a quarrel is a 'bob;' and all presents are a 'dash,' 'dassy' in Barbot, and 'dashs' in Ogilby. ...
— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.--Vol. I • Richard F. Burton

... grapes," says Timothy, "Pomegranates pink," says Elaine; "A junket of cream and a cranberry ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various

... fineness, frailty, refinement, fastidiousness, discrimination, sensitiveness; dainty, tidbit, junket. ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... which even junket for supper in the blue Dresden bowl could hardly lighten at all. Next day the Lamb's cough was worse. It certainly seemed very whoopy, and the doctor came in his ...
— The Phoenix and the Carpet • E. Nesbit

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— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 - Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences


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