take a pleasure trip; host a picnic; feast; entertain; go on a government paid trip
pleasure trip, excursion, picnic, outing; sweetened curdled milk (eaten as a dessert); official trip paid for by the government
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Junket Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To give entertainment to; to feast.
To give entertainment to; to feast.
(v. i.)
To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
(n.)
A feast; an entertainment.
A feast; an entertainment.
(n.)
A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
junket
\jun"ket\, v. i. 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.
junket
\jun"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. -- walpole.
junket
\jun"ket\ (?), n. [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.
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water junket
Noun
1. dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
(hypernym) dessert, sweet, afters
2. a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
(synonym) excursion, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay
(hypernym) journey, journeying
(hyponym) airing
3. a trip taken by an official at public expense
(hypernym) trip
Verb
1. go on a pleasure trip
(hypernym) travel, trip, jaunt
(derivation) excursion, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay
2. provide a feast or banquet for
(synonym) feast, banquet
(hypernym) host
(verb-group) feast, banquet
3. partake in a feast or banquet
(synonym) feast, banquet
(hypernym) eat
(hyponym) wine and dine
(verb-group) feast, banquet
Junket Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Junket may refer to:
- Junket (dessert), a dessert made of flavoured, sweetened curds
- Junket (company), a brand name of rennet tablets and dessert mixes
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