Thesaurus: junket

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1. n. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
2. n. A feast; an entertainment.
3. v. i. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
4. v. t. To give entertainment to; to feast.
5. n. dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
6. n. a journey taken for pleasure
7. n. a trip taken by an official at public expense
8. v. go on a pleasure trip
9. v. provide a feast or banquet for
10. v. partake in a feast or banquet
11. 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. 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. 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.
12. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimesapplied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the publiccost.Job's children junketed and feasted together often. South.