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junketing

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jun·ket  (jngkt)
n.
1. A dessert made from flavored milk and rennet.
2. A party, banquet, or outing.
3. A trip or tour, especially:
a. One taken by an official at public expense.
b. One taken by a person who is the guest of a business or agency seeking favor or patronage.
v. jun·ket·ed, jun·ket·ing, jun·kets
v.intr.
1. To hold a party or banquet.
2. To go on a junket.
v.tr.
To fete at a party or banquet.

[Middle English jonket, rush basket, a kind of food served on rushes, feast, from Old North French jonquette, rush basket (probably from jonc, rush,) or from Medieval Latin iuncta, rush basket, both from Latin iuncus, rush.]

junket·er n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.junketing - taking an excursion for pleasure
travel, traveling, travelling - the act of going from one place to another; "he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel"
Translations
junketing [ˈdʒʌŋkɪtɪŋ] N (also junketings) → festividades fpl, fiestas fpl
junketing
n
(old, hum, = merrymaking) → Festivitäten pl (esp hum), → Lustbarkeit f (old, hum)
(= trips at public expense)(Vergnügungs)reisen plauf Staatskosten
junketing [ˈdʒʌŋkɪtɪŋ] n (fam, pej) to go junketingfare bisboccia; (trip) → farsi un viaggetto pagato (dallo stato)
junketing [ˈdʒʌŋkɪtɪŋ] n (fam, pej) to go junketingfare bisboccia; (trip) → farsi un viaggetto pagato (dallo stato)


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Departure of Captain Bonneville for the Columbia Advance of Wyeth Efforts to keep the lead Hudson's Bay party A junketing A delectable beverage Honey and alcohol High carousing The Canadian "bon vivant" A cache A rapid move Wyeth and his plans His travelling companions Buffalo hunting More conviviality An interruption.
It is easy for him to talk of reparation, fresh from journeying and junketing in foreign lands, and living a life of vanity and pleasure.
Upon this, the third day of junketing, it was tiresome to have to restrain oneself even from such innocent excursions of fancy.
 
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