junket

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Quotations 1.3 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌŋkɪt

[edit] Noun

junket (plural junkets)

1. feast, banquet
2. picnic
3. dessert of flavored milk and rennet; also, the brand name of a specific line of desserts of that type.
4. a trip or errand made by a public official at public expense often viewed as having dubious public benefit
5. 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.
6. meeting requiring travel where the beauty or luxury of the destination brings into question the true motives of the attendees.

[edit] Quotations

• 1790, Ambrose Philips, The free-thinker, Vol III. No 124., page 95

  "We grow tired of the frequent Repetition of Balls, of Plays, or of Opera's ; which are Studied, artificial Refreshments : Whereas, Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind ; and most Men have an Appetite to it, once in the day at least : The Person, likewise, who secludes himself from Company, will as naturally impair the Vigour of his Understanding, as he would diminish the Strength of his Body by too abstemious a Course of Diet."

[edit] Verb

to junket (third-person singular simple present junkets, present participle junketing, simple past and past participle junketed)

1. To go on or attend a junket.