JUNKETTING

Verb

junketting

present participle of junket

Noun

junketting (plural junkettings)

Alternative form of junketing

Source: Wiktionary


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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