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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."






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"Junket" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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

... would rise from the volume nervously shattered from an attempt to grasp what it was all about. The only person in the book who is accorded any comprehensive biographical resume is a certain great-uncle of Mr. Conrad, Mr. Nicholas B., who accompanied Bonaparte on his midwinter junket to Moscow, and was bitterly constrained to eat a dog in the forests of Lithuania. To the delineation of this warrior, who was a legend of his youth, Mr. Conrad devotes his most affectionate and tender ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley



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



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