From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Junket \Jun"ket\, verb (used without an object) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Junket \Jun"ket\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Junketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Junketing}.] 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Junket \Jun"ket\, noun [Formerly also juncate, fr. It. giuncata cream cheese, made in a wicker or rush basket, fr. L. juncus a rush. See 2d {Junk}, and cf. {Juncate}.]
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.
3. A trip made at the expense of an organization of which the traveller is an official, ostensibly to obtain information relevant to one's duties; especially, a trip made by a public official at government expense. The term is sometimes used opprobriously, from a belief that such trips are often taken for private pleasure, and are therefore a waste of public money; as, a congressional junket to a tropical country. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
2: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: {excursion}, {jaunt}, {outing}, {pleasure trip}, {expedition}, {sashay}]
3: a trip taken by an official at public expense
verb
2: provide a feast or banquet for [syn: {feast}, {banquet}]
3: partake in a feast or banquet [syn: {feast}, {banquet}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "junket": Charlotte, campaign, carrot pudding, chocolate mousse, circuit, course, custard, duff, excursion, expedition, flan, grand tour, jaunt, journey, mousse, outing, package tour, peregrination, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, plum pudding, progress, pudding, rennet, round trip, roundabout, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sally, shoot, stalk, steamed pudding, syllabub, tapioca pudding, tour, trek, trifle, trip, turn, vanilla pudding, voyage
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