JUNKET

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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.
n.

A feast; an entertainment. A new jaunt or junket every night. Thackeray.

3.
v.

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.

4.
v.

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.

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