JUNKETING

junketing

(noun) taking an excursion for pleasure

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

junketing

present participle of junket

Noun

junketing (plural junketings)

A celebratory feast or banquet.

Source: Wiktionary

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Jun"ket*ing, n.

Definition: A feast or entertainment; a revel. All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for which the ancient magistrates were equally famous with their modern successors. W. Irving. The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar. South.

JUNKET

Jun"ket, n. Etym: [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.

Jun"ket, v. i.

Definition: 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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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