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ˈjunketing, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb junket; feasting, banqueting, merrymaking; also (chiefly U.S.), a going on a pleasure excursion, picnicking; with a and pl.: A feast, banquet, picnic, etc.
1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. x. 235 Their Spiritualtie vsed Iunckettyng [L. potationibus] oftener then the Laietie. 1577Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) i. 151 In these iunkettings. 1667South Serm. Ps. lxxxvii. 2 The apostle would have no revelling, or junketting upon the altar. 1712Steele Spect. No. 466 ⁋3 In my Absence our Maid has let in the spruce Servants in the Neighbourhood to Junketings. 1731Gentl. Mag. I. 103 Depredations by guttling and tippling, junketting, gossiping, gaming, etc. are to be all item'd to the government. 1876Green Stray Stud. 47 To the priest, of course, Carnival is simply a farewell to worldly junketings. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xxi. 646 The fishing and fowling and feasting and junketting that we saw.
b. attrib., as junketing dish, junketing house, junketing party, junketing trip.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxviii. 298 The seede..is often vsed in comfits, or serued at the table with other iunketting dishes. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 148 The same being put into iunketting dishes..giueth vnto them a delectable..taste. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 158 Snug junketting parties at which I have been present. 1893Q. [Couch] Delect. Duchy 67 The morals of the junketing houses underwent change. |