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Junket   /dʒˈəŋkɪt/   Listen
Junket

noun
1.
Dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet.
2.
A journey taken for pleasure.  Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, sashay.  "It was merely a pleasure trip" , "After cautious sashays into the field"
3.
A trip taken by an official at public expense.
verb
(past & past part. junketed; pres. part. junketing)
1.
Go on a pleasure trip.  Synonym: junketeer.
2.
Provide a feast or banquet for.  Synonyms: banquet, feast.
3.
Partake in a feast or banquet.  Synonyms: banquet, feast.



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"Junket" Quotes from Famous Books



... while distances were white and full of mystery. All of Bath that pretended to fashion or condition was present that evening at a fete at the house of a country gentleman of the neighborhood. When the stately junket was concluded, it was the pleasure of M. de Chateaurien to form one of the escort of Lady Mary's carriage for the return. As they took the road, Sir Hugh Guilford and Mr. Bantison, engaging in indistinct but vigorous remonstrance ...
— Monsieur Beaucaire • Booth Tarkington
... a programme for three weeks of heaven, sheer Bliss, if you add to the scheme Farm eggs and bacon and junket and Devonshire Cream. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 1st, 1920 • Various
... 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
... was a Tradesman, [no [1]] less full of the Age than the former; for he had the Gallantry to tell me, that at a late Junket which he was invited to, the Motion being made, and the Question being put, twas by Maid, Wife and Widow resolved nemine contradicente, That a young sprightly Journeyman is absolutely necessary in their Way of Business: To which they had the Assent and Concurrence of the Husbands present. ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... a junket,' replied Manto, 'above all things. And, indeed, I was half frightened out of my wits at the bare idea of toiling over this desert. All is prepared, please your Majesty, for our landing. Your Majesty's litter ...
— The Infernal Marriage • Benjamin Disraeli


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