Junket : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Junket	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Junket
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
junket n dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" Synonym(s): excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay a trip taken by an official at public expense v go on a pleasure trip Synonym(s): junketeer, junket provide a feast or banquet for Synonym(s): feast, banquet, junket partake in a feast or banquet Synonym(s): feast, banquet, junket
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Junket \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Junket \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Junket \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.