Antonyms for junketing

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : juhng-kit

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒʌŋ kɪt

Definition of junketing

Origin : late 14c., "basket in which fish are caught or carried," from Medieval Latin iuncata "rush basket," perhaps from Latin iuncus "rush." Shifted meaning by 1520s to "feast, banquet," probably via notion of a picnic basket, which led to extended sense of "pleasure trip" (1814), and then to "tour by government official at public expense for no discernable public benefit" (by 1886, American English). Cf. Italian cognate giuncata "cream cheese" (originally made in a rush basket), a sense of junket also found in Middle English and preserved lately in dialects.

As in fun : noun amusement, play
As in journey : verb travel
As in tour : verb visit, journey
As in travel : verb journey on a trip or tour
As in peregrinate : verb journey

Example sentences :

The boy was philandering, junketing, somewhere on the Riviera.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

What delighted Pierre was that nothing of all the daytime junketing remained.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

"You are too little for all this junketing, Anne," he said kindly.
Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School » by Jessie Graham Flower

Why is it that she avoids all junketing, and sits only with sick people?
Extract from : « Rose Charlitte » by Marshall Saunders

Jim's folks were at the junketing, too; so we had the house to ourselves.
Extract from : « A Changed Heart » by May Agnes Fleming

We have been junketing around for so long that we don't want to do anything else.
Extract from : « The Four Corners Abroad » by Amy Ella Blanchard

My wife will not have to go fasting, but she won't be allowed any junketing.
Extract from : « Eyes Like the Sea » by Mr Jkai

I soon discovered that this was no junketing party; all were on business bent.
Extract from : « Upon The Tree-Tops » by Olive Thorne Miller

Admiral, what a good time we had there, junketing and dancing and flirting!
Extract from : « English Society » by George Du Maurier

But I thought you would have been dining and junketing in Dunscombe to-night.
Extract from : « The Testing of Diana Mallory » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Synonyms for junketing

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