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Junket   /dʒˈəŋkɪt/   Listen
Junket

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



... published, to be a Sunday-school book, and a volume of "Good Form for High Society" rolled into one; but she is really more like a treatise on flower-gardens, and a recipe for making Devonshire junket ...
— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson

... author must cross the line in person. He did not enjoy the prospect of a cold-weather trip to the north, and tried to tempt Howells to go with him, but only succeeded in persuading Osgood, who would do anything or go anywhere that offered the opportunity for pleasant company and junket. ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... done certainly all he could to make it up with the girl. He tried to get her to go with him on what was really a junket to Vienna—there was no better place to play than the Vienna of those days—though there was also some sort of surgical congress there that spring that served him as an excuse, and Mary, Miss Wollaston felt, had only herself ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... junket, ice cream, sponge cake, and fruit are far better than the rich pastries, which never fail even in health to encourage indigestion and heart burn. The fruitades are all good. Candies and other sweets may be eaten in ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler



Words linked to "Junket" :   journeying, wine and dine, sweet, dessert, afters, airing, journey, field trip, trip, travel, eat, host



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