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Junket   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.






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"Junket" Quotes from Famous Books



... fare, menu, table d'hote [Fr.], ordinary, entree. meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement^, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner [Fr.], bever^, tiffin^, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote [Fr.], dejeuner a la fourchette [Fr.]; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... We're stuck!" declared the Englishman miserably. "I don't see why I don't go down and be a hog again... we'll finally starve... Somehow I had a mind to die sober... God knows why I ever came on such a junket." ...
— The Cruise of the Dry Dock • T. S. Stribling

... makes the junket set Or squeezes from the curd the pale whey, And drone of bees holies the Met- ropolitan ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 • Various

... stony. Hurry out to your school kip and bring us back some money. Today the bards must drink and junket. Ireland expects that every man this day ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... one. Junket, her name is. By Curds out of Season. My mistake. I was thinking of our beagle. Don't think I'm quite mad. I'm only drunk. You're ...
— The Brother of Daphne • Dornford Yates

... Source" sooner or later. Marketers crossed the ferry and paused for a morning drink. In the cool of the day quiet citizens rambled up from Ponteglos with rod and line, or brought their families by boat on the high evening tide to eat cream and junket, and sit afterwards on the benches by the inn-door, watching the fish rise and listening to the song of the young people some way up stream. Painters came, too, and sketched the old inn, and sometimes stayed for a week, having tasted the salmon. Pigeon-breeders dropped in and smoked ...
— Wandering Heath • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... l.82, l. 93. Junket. The auncient manner of grateful suitors, who, hauing prevailed, were woont to present the Judges, or the Reporters, of their causes, with Comfets or other Jonkets. ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various



Words linked to "Junket" :   excursion, trip, junketeer, dessert, junketing, wine and dine, feast, outing, sweet, journeying, eat, pleasure trip, banquet, sashay, airing, field trip, expedition, travel, host



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