Synonyms for junket

Grammar : Noun

Spell : juhng-kit

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒʌŋ kɪt

Définition of junket

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 Italian cognate giuncata "cream cheese" (originally made in a rush basket), a sense of junket also found in Middle English and preserved lately in dialects.

noun a trip

Example sentences :

They'd come on this junket partly to get away from their troubles and their wives.
Extract from : « Attention Saint Patrick » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins

There were cakes of all varieties; there was clotted cream; and of course there was junket.
Extract from : « Robin Tremayne » by Emily Sarah Holt

Marriage is like the rennet you put into the junket—it turns it!
Extract from : « The Celebrity at Home » by Violet Hunt

Stir the junket tablet in the cold water till it melts, and add this.
Extract from : « The Fun of Cooking » by Caroline French Benton

When somebody wanted junket, he had made no fuss, he had just helped them to junket.
Extract from : « Marriage » by H. G. Wells

Hereafter when the junket is passed round somebody else may have my share.
Extract from : « "Speaking of Operations--" » by Irvin S. Cobb

In the dictionary I have looked up the definitions of junket.
Extract from : « "Speaking of Operations--" » by Irvin S. Cobb

Possibly the Canadian junket aboard may have something to do with it.
Extract from : « The Alaskan » by James Oliver Curwood

I had a look, yesterday, when I was taking the local citizenry on that junket.
Extract from : « The Return » by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire

Dissolve the junket tablets in the cold water and add to the lukewarm milk.
Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

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