Lexic.us

Definition of Junket

1. Noun. Dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet.

2. Verb. Go on a pleasure trip.

3. Noun. A journey taken for pleasure. "After cautious sashays into the field"

4. Verb. Provide a feast or banquet for. "Sam cannot junket Sue "

5. Noun. A trip taken by an official at public expense.

6. Verb. Partake in a feast or banquet. "Sam and Sue junket"

Definition of Junket

1. n. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.

2. v. i. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.

3. v. t. To give entertainment to; to feast.

Definition of Junket

1. Noun. (obsolete) A basket. ¹

2. Noun. A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet. ¹

3. Noun. A feast or banquet. ¹

4. Noun. A pleasure-trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment. ¹

5. Noun. (gaming) 20-40 table gaming rooms for which the capacity and limits change daily. Junket rooms are often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino. ¹

6. Verb. To go on or attend a junket. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Junket

1. to banquet [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: banquet

Medical Definition of Junket

1. 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) Origin: Junketed; Junketing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Junket

junk mail junk pile junk science junk sciences junk shop junk shot junk sick junkanoo junkanoos junkball

junkballer junkballers junked junkerism junket (current term) junketed junketeer junketeered junketeering junketeers

junketer junketers junketing junkets junketted junkhead junkie junkiedom junkiehood

Literary usage of Junket

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Dietetics: With Reference to Diet in Disease by Alida Frances Pattee (1905)
"junket junket is a healthful and dainty dessert made simply of pure milk, and containing enough of the active principle of rennet found in the junket Tablet ..."

2. Uncooked Foods & how to Use Them: A Treatise on how to Get the Highest Form by Eugene Christian, Mollie Griswold Christian (1904)
"Any kind of fresh fruit may be added to the junket before it has entirely congealed and a portion of fruit given with each service. ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"The name of junket is still given in Devonshire to a similar preparation. ... From delicacies of the foregoing description, to junket has come to signify to ..."

4. The Christ Hospital Cook Book: A Collection of Tried and Approved Recipes by Marguerite Deaver (1910)
"Add the dissolved »junket tablet and let stand in«a warm room until the mixture ... I junket tablet. \ cup each peaches, bananas rubbed through a sieve. ..."

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