From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[2010]
*** Etymology
From [en],[1] from [en], possibly from [en] and therefore a possible [en].[2]
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.<ref
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*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A basket .
2. A type of cream cheese , originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curd s.
3. * [en]
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1818 | author=John Keats | title=Where be ye going, you Devon maid?
|passage=I love your meads, and I love your flowers, / And I love your JUNKETS
mainly [...].}}
1. [en] A delicacy .
2. * [III]
3. * [V]
4. A feast or banquet .
5. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1790 | author=Ambrose Philips | journal=The free-thinker | volume=III | issue=124 | page=95
|passage=Conversation is the natural JUNKET of the Mind ; and most Men have an
Appetite to it, once in the day at least [...].}}
1. * [passage=We're often in waiting / At JUNKET or feting, / And sometimes attend an interment—]
2. A pleasure trip ; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
3. * [en]
4. [en] [en] .
5. * [en]
6. * [en-GB]
7. [en] 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.
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|junketeer|junketer|junkety }}
**** Translations
[dessert]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[feast or banquet]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[pleasure trip]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr] [colloquial]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[gaming room]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[pres_ptc2=junketting]
1. [en] To attend a junket; to feast .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1677 | author=w:Hannah Woolley | title=The Compleat Servant-Maid | location=London | publisher=T. Passinger | page=2 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66839.0001.001
|passage=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.}}
1. * 1688 , [Robert South] , Sermon preached on 8 [nbsp] April, 1688, in _Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. The Second Volume_ , London: Thomas Bennet, p. [nbsp] 414, <sup> see http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60955.0001.001 </sup>
2. *: _[Job (biblical figure)] ’s Children_ JUNKETTED and feasted together often, but the Reckoning cost them dear at last.
3. * [letter=32]
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1879 | author=w:Robert Louis Stevenson | title= [Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes] | location=London | publisher=Seeley, Jackson & Halliday | chapter=10 | page=38 | url=https://archive.org/details/edinburghpictur00stev
|passage=After they had built their water-house and laid their pipes, it
occurred to them that the place was suitable for JUNKETING. Once entertained,
with jovial magistrates and public funds, the idea led speedily to
accomplishment; and Edinburgh could soon boast of a municipal Pleasure
House.}}
1. [en] To go on a junket; to travel .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1910 | author=w:Lucy Maud Montgomery | title=Miss Sally’s Letter | url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20150146/html.php
|passage=Together they made trips to town or JUNKETED over the country in
search of furniture and dishes of which Miss Sally had heard.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1921 | author=w:Ida Tarbell | chapter=The Socialization of the Home | title=The Business of Being a Woman | url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16577/16577-h/16577-h.htm | publisher=Macmillan | location=New York
|passage=It is only by much JUNKETING about that one comes to the full
realization of what men and women in the main are doing in this country. One
learns as he passes from town to town, through cities and across plains, that
the general reason for industry everywhere is to get the means to build and
support a home.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1943 | author=w:Patrick Quentin | chapter=The Last of Mrs. Maybrick | editor=Marc Gerald | title=Murder Plus: True Crime Stories from the Masters of Detective Fiction | location=New York | publisher=Pharos | year_published=1992 | page=214 | url=https://openlibrary.org/ia/murderplustruecr00gera
|passage=It was her belief that the summer folk went JUNKETING off with the
first fall of autumn leaves, leaving their cats to starve.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1985 | author=w:Herman Wouk | title= [Inside, Outside (Wouk novel)] | location=New York | publisher=Avon | year_published=1986 | chapter=81 | page=549 | url=https://openlibrary.org/ia/insideoutside00wouk
|passage=On the boat I met an old art history professor, with whom I JUNKETED
around for a while, visiting museums in London and Paris [...]}}
1. [en] To regale or entertain with a feast.
**** Synonyms
- [attend a junket] [en]
- [go on a junket] [en] , [en]
**** Translations
[to attend a junket]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
[trans-bottom]
[to go on a junket] [trans-bottom]
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- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
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