jun·ket /ˈʤʌŋkət/
(vi.)用公費遊山玩水,設宴(vt.)宴請凝乳食品,用公費遊山玩水,宴請
Jun·ket n.
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. 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.] 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.
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junket
n 1: dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
2: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the
shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious
sashays into the field" [syn: excursion, jaunt, outing,
pleasure trip, expedition, sashay]
3: a trip taken by an official at public expense
v 1: go on a pleasure trip
2: provide a feast or banquet for [syn: feast, banquet]
3: partake in a feast or banquet [syn: feast, banquet]