junket Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
  2. noun a journey taken for pleasure
    sashay; expedition; outing; pleasure trip; jaunt; excursion.
    • many summer excursions to the shore
    • it was merely a pleasure trip
    • after cautious sashays into the field
  3. noun a trip taken by an official at public expense
  4. verb go on a pleasure trip
    junketeer.
  5. verb provide a feast or banquet for
    feast; banquet.
  6. verb partake in a feast or banquet
    feast; banquet.

WordNet

Jun"ket noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. 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 transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Junketed; present participle & verbal noun Junketing
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913