junket
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junket
- /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkɪt/ UK, US
Rhymes with -ʌŋkɪt
Where it comes from
From Middle English jonket (“basket made of rushes”), from Medieval Latin iuncta, possibly from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”) and therefore a possible doublet of jonquil.
Meaning shifted to “feast or banquet” by 1520s, probably via the notion of a picnic basket. This in turn led to the sense of “pleasure trip” (1814), and then to specifically to “trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment” by 1886 in American English.
noun junkets
- A basket.
- A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds. I love your meads, and I love your flowers, / And I love your junkets mainly […].
- A delicacy. […] though bride and bridegroom wants For to supply the places at the table, You know there wants no junkets at the feast.
- A feast or banquet. Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind ; and most Men have an Appetite to it, once in the day at least […].
- A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment. It did strike him as odd, perhaps, that merchants did not dare to go on a junket or plan a congenial dinner without pretending to themselves that it had some business significance.
- Ellipsis of press junket An entertainment reporter who is a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Freeman made comments about her skirt and her legs during two different junkets.
- A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
verb junkets · junketing · junketting · junketed · junketted
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To attend a junket; to feast.
Be careful that you wast not, or spoil your Ladies, or Mistresses goods, neither sit you up junketing a nights, after your Master and Mistress be abed.
Similar: banquet
- To go on a junket; to travel. Together they made trips to town or junketed over the country in search of furniture and dishes of which Miss Sally had heard.
- To regale or entertain with a feast.
Translations
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noun dessert
| Français | caillé, fromage blanc |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Quarkspeise, Quark, dicke Milch |
noun feast or banquet
| Español | francachela |
|---|---|
| Français | fête, banquet |
noun pleasure trip
| Español | vuelta, garbeo |
|---|---|
| Français | ballade, virée, excursion, troisième mi-temps |
| Italiano | gita, passeggiata |
| Русский | приятная пое́здка prijatnaja pojézdka |
Talk about this word "junket." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/junket. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. junket. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/junket "junket." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/junket.Cite this
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