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Webster 1913 Edition
Junket
Jun′ket
,Noun.
1.
A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
How Faery Mab the
junkets
eat. Milton.
Victuals varied well in taste,
And other
And other
junkets
. Chapman.
2.
A feast; an entertainment.
A new jaunt or
junket
every night. Thackeray.
Jun′ket
,Verb.
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
,Verb.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Junket
JUNK'ET
,Noun.
1.
A stolen entertainment.JUNK'ET
,Verb.
I.
1.
To feast. Job's children junketed and feasted together often.
Definition 2024
junket
junket
English
Noun
junket (plural junkets)
- (obsolete) A basket.
- A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet.
- 1818, John Keats, "Where be ye going, you Devon maid?":
- I love your meads, and I love your flowers, / And I love your junkets mainly [...].
- 1818, John Keats, "Where be ye going, you Devon maid?":
- (obsolete) A delicacy.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.4:
- Goe streight, and take with thee to witnesse it / Sixe of thy fellowes of the best array, / And beare with you both wine and juncates fit, / And bid him eate […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.4:
- A feast or banquet.
- 1790, Ambrose Philips, The free-thinker, Vol III. No 124., page 95
- Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind ; and most Men have an Appetite to it, once in the day at least [...].
- 1790, Ambrose Philips, The free-thinker, Vol III. No 124., page 95
- A pleasure-trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
- (gambling) 20-40 table gaming rooms for which the capacity and limits change daily. Junket rooms are often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
Translations
dessert
|
feast or banquet
pleasure trip
Verb
junket (third-person singular simple present junkets, present participle junketing or junketting, simple past and past participle junketed or junketted)
- To go on or attend a junket.
- South
- Job's children junketed and feasted together often.
- South