junket
Plural: junkets
Noun
- dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
- a journey taken for pleasure
- a trip taken by an official at public expense
- A basket.
- A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.
- A delicacy.
- A feast or banquet.
- A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
- Ellipsis of press junket.
- A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
Verb
Verb Forms: junketed, junketing, junkets
- To go on an excursion, often for pleasure or an official trip.
- go on a pleasure trip
- provide a feast or banquet for
- partake in a feast or banquet
- To attend a junket; to feast.
- To go on a junket; to travel.
- To regale or entertain with a feast.
Examples
- He decided to junket around the board, exploring different word possibilities.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English jonket (“basket made of rushes”), from Medieval Latin iuncta, possibly from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”) and therefore a possible doublet of jonquil.
Meaning shifted to “feast or banquet” by 1520s, probably via the notion of a picnic basket. This in turn led to the sense of “pleasure trip” (1814), and then to specifically to “trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment” by 1886 in American English.
Synonyms
banquet, excursion, expedition, feast, jaunt, junketeer, outing, pleasure trip, sashay, gallivant
Scrabble Score: 17
junket: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordjunket: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
junket: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary